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How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools
twitter writes "Ever wonder why schools still use Windows? Boycott Novell has extracted the details from 2002 Microsoft email presented in the Comes vrs Microsoft case and other leaks. What emerges is Microsoft's desperate battle to 'never lose to Linux.' At stake for Microsoft is more than a billion dollars of annual revenue, vital user conditioning and governmental lock in that excludes competition, and software freedom for the rest of us. Education and Government Incentives [EDGI] and "Microsoft Unlimited Potential" are programs that allows vendors to sell Windows at zero cost. Microsoft's nightmare scenario has already been realized in Indiana and other places. Windows is not really competitive and schools that switch save tens of millions of dollars. Because software is about as expensive as the hardware in these deals, the world could save up to $500 million each year by dumping Microsoft. Now that the cat is out of the bag, it's hard to see what Microsoft can do other than what they did to Peter Quinn."
Yeah, mark me as troll, but Microsoft's F'in them.
There, fixed it for ya.
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Yeah, uhhhh no. Not for business.
And so it continues.... The "Slashdot" that I have come to know and love over the past 9 years continues to degrade itself by linking to publications such as Boycot Novell, an amature looking troll-bait website preceded in it's ridiculousness only by one of it's founding authors, Roy Schestowitz. A man who, along with his well known counterpart who wrote the submission above, has been pretty accurately summerized in a previous posting.
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee
You want a better OS; STFU and build one!