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Microsoft to Build High School in Philadelphia, PA
LynchMan writes "According to the The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia is too be the home of a Microsoft funded High School. While having an inner city public school with a large tech fund ($46 Million) will be a great asset to those young students interested in technology, is the Philadelphia School District selling out to Microsoft really the only way to achieve this? Especially with all of the negative press that Microsoft has had recently, is this an attempt to do some good and help out those who cannot afford private school? Or is Microsoft just making sure that they secure themselves another generation of coders/admins/users? This being the first school of it's kind, will a Microsoft high school be coming to a town near you?" This looks very much like the Microsoft buses that toured from school to school a couple years back, but much larger and much more stationary.
The difference is that no one will use the Mac ;-)
afterwards anyway
what is wrong with you people!!!
this is a great thing that MS is doing. a school that will take the bright lights of the district and teach them technology, higher level math, higher level science, etc.
this is a great idea.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Unfortunately, as a FOSS vendor I am not a convicted monopolist who can take the billions I stole from innocent consumers and put it into a foundation to promote FOSS and then say what a wonderful person I am. Of course, Gates learned this technique from the Robber Barons of 'yore. Today, for example, everyone in America associates Carnegie with good deeds - not the thieving son-of-a-bitch he really was.