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School May Turn Down $43K In Free Macs

Posted by timothy on from the hobgoblin-of-little-minds dept.

Longfeather writes "Tukwila, Washington's cash-strapped Foster High School may have to turn down US$43,000 worth of free Macs because of a PC-only IT policy already in place. Read here(1) and here(2)." Surely some school would be willing to bend (or rethink) policy rather than turn away new computers.

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  1. Re:hypocrisy by phillymjs · · Score: 3, Informative

    and how is this different than the Ballmer going to Europe to pursuade people to use windows?

    RTFA, dummy. This grant is coming from a nonprofit organization, not directly from Apple. Ballmer's "persuasion," on the other hand, comes directly from a Microsoft slush fund.

    The $43K grant was presumably open to all qualified schools, with a single winner. The Microsoft slush fund only comes into play when a subsidy is needed to block non-MS products from being purchased somewhere, with a single winner: Microsoft.

    ~Philly