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20060727 Thursday July 27, 2006
That'll Teach Em

According to the LA Times, $400 million from a 2004 anti-trust settlement against Microsoft will be used for "technology education". The money can be used for computer hardware, software, maintenance and infrastructure, and networking equipment. The full article is here.
  
What I want to know is, how much of that $400 million is going to be spent on Windows and other Microsoft products. Many districts are still trying to get legal copies of Windows for all their computers before they get nailed by M$ for pirating. All the schools in my daughter's district use Windows PCs.
  
"Ha Microsoft! We're taking $400 million from you to punish you for anti-trust violations and you know what we're going to do with that money?? We're going to buy your stuff! Ha! That'll teach you!"
  
I think it is too much to hope that all that money will be spent on non-M$ stuff and a virtual pipe dream that any of it will be spent on unix-based stuff.

posted by kamundse Jul 27 2006, 08:57:52 AM PDT Permalink Comments [3]