Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 15, 2006 01:20 AM
"K12LTSP is now in production use in her school."
And that is the exact problem Gates uses his "Charitable Foundation" to fight. As I see it, his foundation allows him to give Windows away for free, and thus to compete with Linux on price, without affecting his exhorbitant retail price structure.
His "charitable" foundation gave grants of hardware and software to over 70 schools and colleges in the NorthWest, in the name of diversity/minorities because "their" education was so "poor". The foundation is now in its 5th round of donations. <a href="http://www.evcc.ctc.edu/template.cfm?doc_id=1509" title="ctc.edu">http://www.evcc.ctc.edu/template.cfm?doc_id=1509</a ctc.edu> The grants will fund the start-up of five new schools and accelerate the efforts of five existing schools to become high achievement models through improved teaching and learning and enhanced access to technology. Whose "technology" do you think they'll fund access to? It can't be Linux because Linux is truely free.
It's an easy scam: Microsoft "donates" software to Gate's foundation and takes a retial value tax write off on it. The foundation "grants" the software to the schools as a charitable donation, along with hardware. It's like crack dealers giving out free samples.
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Re:Chose Linux for the block.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 15, 2006 01:20 AMAnd that is the exact problem Gates uses his "Charitable Foundation" to fight. As I see it, his foundation allows him to give Windows away for free, and thus to compete with Linux on price, without affecting his exhorbitant retail price structure.
His "charitable" foundation gave grants of hardware and software to over 70 schools and colleges in the NorthWest, in the name of diversity/minorities because "their" education was so "poor". The foundation is now in its 5th round of donations.
<a href="http://www.evcc.ctc.edu/template.cfm?doc_id=1509" title="ctc.edu">http://www.evcc.ctc.edu/template.cfm?doc_id=1509</a ctc.edu>
The grants will fund the start-up of five new schools and accelerate the efforts of five existing schools to become high achievement models through improved teaching and learning and enhanced access to technology.
Whose "technology" do you think they'll fund access to? It can't be Linux because Linux is truely free.
It's an easy scam: Microsoft "donates" software to Gate's foundation and takes a retial value tax write off on it. The foundation "grants" the software to the schools as a charitable donation, along with hardware. It's like crack dealers giving out free samples.
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