Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part III

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 21, 2002 @07:43AM from the force-breeds-resistance dept.

SymphonicMan writes: "As previously discussed on Slashdot, Microsoft threatened an audit for the 24 largest school districts in the Northwest. Now it appears they may be backing down, according to Steve Duin, the Oregonian columnist who orginally brought this to all of our attention in April. Not only that, he writes that Portland Public Schools is opening 16 Linux computer labs across the districts, at half the cost of a Microsoft-equipped lab. Looks like this might be more than just a PR victory for open source. I'm a senior in one of the districts (Beaverton) included in the audit, and our staff is still going crazy trying to comply. But with districts across Oregon facing major budget shortfalls due to the poor economy, removing the pressure of this audit would be very welcome."

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Suffer the kids by Anonymous Coward · 2002-05-21 07:51 · Score: 0, Troll

man, those little kids are gonna be so screwed up it's not funny. U poor linux losers are gonna have them type in at a bash shell just to play reader rabbit. And what cool games does Linux? SENDMAIL? APACHE? Find the buffer overfollow? And don't mention that POS tuxracer.

I swear. if some of u would just get some sweet pussy, u could see how much that dirty hippie OS of your sucks.