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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. the right direction by carpe_noctem · · Score: 1, Troll

    Now, when will they start giving out Jaguar's source to all the developers that helped out with Darwin?

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  2. So Jobs wants to corner the NEA market... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I realize this ain't the politically correct thing to say, but education majors are, uniformly, the slowest, dullest, least motivated students on any major college campus. If that's Jobs' target market, I'm sure Bill G. will be happy to cede it to him.

    Even more politically incorrect than that observation will be this question: I don't suppose Jobs will be interested in the millions upon millions of American parents who have taken to home schooling their children - or will he?

  3. Re:MOTHERFUCKERS! by FreeLinux · · Score: 1, Troll

    If $1700 is such a problem for your school perhaps, you should see about going to another school. It seems like an insignificant amount, even for a small school.

  4. Linux Free for K-12 Teachers by dlc915 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple Gives Jaguar Free to All U.S. K-12 Teachers

    October 17, 2002--Linux today announced its "X for Teachers" program that gives a free copy of the Linux kernel version 2.4.19 "Stable" to every K-12 teacher in the U.S. Linux combines a stable and robust POSIX-based foundation with KDE/Gnome's legendary ease-of-use to create the world's most advanced operating system for teaching, learning and administration. The free copy of Linux is accompanied by free copies of Linux's Digital Hub applications-Xine for digital video viewing, the GIMP for editing digital photos and XMMS for building a digital audio library.

    "Getting a Red Hat or Mandrake install CD for free makes it easy for teachers to move to Linux, so they can spend more time using technology in the classroom and less time making it all work," said Tux the Penguin, Linux's vice president of Education. "Linux has delivered innovative products to teachers and schools for over 9 years, and 2.4.19 stable is our best ever."

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  5. Re:Are they.. by joepa · · Score: 0, Troll

    I got WinXP, Frontpage, OfficeXP, and Visual Studio from MS for being a college student, why didn't we hear about this?

    No, you probably paid for it in one way or another.

  6. Re:Are they.. by ctr2sprt · · Score: 0, Troll
    Here, I've got a supercharger for a 1981 Porsche 924 NA that's been stroked to 2.4L. It cost me $1,500, but I'll let you have it for free. Quite a deal, huh? Well, you do need that exact model of car. It'll cost a lot of money to buy it. You'll have to get someone to install it, too, or you might damage the engine. And, when you're all done, it probably won't be any faster than the car you have now.

    But what a deal! You'd be saving $1,500, once you spent $25,000 on the rest!

  7. With comments like this by Space+Coyote · · Score: 1, Troll

    You'd think the average slashdotter would whine and bitch if he realized he paid full price for a beer just before happy hour.

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  8. Giving it away for free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's still too expensive.

  9. Re:Double standard? Yup. by Natalie's+Hot+Grits · · Score: 0, Troll

    I never said I think this is a good thing for anybody. In fact, I hate anything having to do with apple. The general concensus on slashdot, from my POV, is that most of the cluefull people really don't give a shit about apple, and just tollerate the mac zealots. Since you can't convince a mac zealot that their precious G4 and twisted idea of UNIX that is OSX isn't all that, its not worth the argument.

    Though, I can see how the minority of people that like apple can make it look like slashdot likes apple. But this is a problem with the moderation system. If you notice, any post negative to apple == negative karma, every post positive to apple == positive karma. Since the moderators are a minority(on a given day), I can see how this easilly happens.

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  10. Re:Are they.. by Vengie · · Score: 2, Troll
    I got WinXP, Frontpage, OfficeXP, and Visual Studio from MS for being a college student, why didn't we hear about this?
    Because you lying sack of shit, you have to return it all when you graduate.
    (See http://wss.yale.edu/msdnaa/ )
    Someone should mod you flamebait, asshole.
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  11. Re:It doesn't matter what they give for free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you had to bring home a teacher's pay, you'd probably pirate software too.

  12. Never so expensive as "free" stuff by buss_error · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh god. Just when I thought we were getting rid of apple talk crap. And before you mod this down as a troll, (which it ain't) show me a large network where you did apple talk, punk. Small networks don't count. It has to be large, as in over 50 routers. THEN you can mod it down.

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  13. Re:Wow by KillerKane · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmmmnn...you might be on to something...let's see... silicon's made from sand, now 1,000 lbs of sand - $100, one blast furnace....

    Try and build a car that way, nitwit, and the light will dawn. Maybe. Nitwit.

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