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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:Break the wintel monopoly. Profit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Uh. No.

    What do these kids need computer for? Word processing, certainly, and printing. These simple tasks are needlessly complex on Linux. What else? Multimedia authoring, definitely. Pff. Linux is not capable of doing that task. What else? Presentations, probably. Linux cannot be used for that unless you're willing to teach these kids how to write OpenGL code by hand or something.

    Forget it. You're out of your mind.