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Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part III
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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HellZ yeah, you know how it is bizznitch
[slashdot.org][slashdot.org]dumbass[slashdot . rg]
-- You are such a fucking fag
Free Software is a lot like the no name brand items that you see on your grocer's shelves.
The packaging may appear to be made of cheaper material, and the product itself generally
looks the same as that manufactured by real brand names, but that is not where the similarities
end. As with no name (or in house) brand products, Free Software is lacking in quality.
Everywhere you look, you see Free Software, and it is (usually) cheaper than that of its
closed source competitors. But come on folks. We all know that the package of Macaroni and
Cheese sitting on the shelf tastes nowhere near the same as the appealing package of Kraft
Dinner! This is true with Free Software as well. Take, for example, the much inferior Mozilla
web browser. It may look fairly similar to Internet Explorer, and it may even render a few of the
same web pages correctly. However, the majority of pages end up looking wrong. This can make it
difficult for internet users to see the web page as the designer intended. This also makes it
necessary for site designers to put up ugly "stickers" instructing users on which web browser
to use to view the site as it was intended to be viewed. If everyone would use the superior
closed source browsers, the web would look the same for everyone.
Consider also the Free Software Office Suite, "Open Office." It seems to do a lot of things right.
However, it is still unable to open files made by the industry standard (and closed source) Microsoft
Office. Until (and how likely is this to happen given the fact that it's Free) Open Office can
support these files, it will always be a substandard product.
So, in conclusion, Free Software is a lot like the no-name products that you see at grocery stores.
It is cheaper, but you get what you pay for, an inferior product.
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.
buddy, this ain't one of those artsyfag sites like Kuro5hin.org. Keep ur boring shitory lessons to your self. thanks, that is all.