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Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers

Posted by pudge on from the quick-marry-a-teacher dept.

Hugh writes "It seems Apple is giving away for free its newest revision of Mac OS X, version 10.2 (Jaguar), to every K-12 teacher in the U.S."

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  1. Uhh, wait a minute ... by rotwhylr · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Jaguar is no good without Apple h/w to run it on, right? So, presumably, any teacher taking advantage of this would already have a Mac lying around. Other than preventing their current K-12 teacher customer base from eroding, I can't see what this will gain them.

    A more effective way to market their product would be bundle their product with every PC manufactured, become a ruthless competitor, butcher other software companies, become a monopoly, and end up in court fighting the government lawyers before finally ... oh, wait a minute ... no, forget that. It's already been done. /insert apology here for off-topic M$FT bashing/

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    -- Windows is not simply installed on a computer; it is inflicted.
  2. Re:It doesn't matter what they give for free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about a free OS with over a GB of apps that boot and run from CDROM. No HDD, no virsus problems and no admin crap. This is what a teacher really needs.

    http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

    Apple can't begin to approach this!

  3. Re:so.. by spyder913 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    At least linux doesn't require special hardware though.