And it smacks of desperation. I heard Liz Black denegrate M$ this morning about the 22 computers for that school. The reason they are going with Linux is because M$ is auditing them for license compliance. She was pretty pissed that M$ was picking on a public school with hardly any budget.
Sounds to me like M$ is rounding up the wagons for a coming battle. I think the free|OSS community should take the battle to the Win32 desktop and start encouraging people to run free software like Open Office and Mozilla. Cygwin Rules!!! :) John Hebert --- Mnemonic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically it smacks of politicians trying to make > decisions regarding > technology when they do not fully understand with > what they are dealing. > > There's a sucker born every minute...if anyone > believes that M$ is giving > anything away, they need to see me about some land > in the Everglades, or > better yet a bridge in the vicinity of Brooklyn. > > -K > > On Saturday 17 August 2002 12:10, you wrote: > > Does this article have a faint air of unreality > about it... > > > > > Eventually, he added, the city will have to > purchase > > > software from the company, but he said it would > be a > > > "minuscule" expense. > > > > < snip > > > > > > Meffert estimated the city will save $100 > million by > > > accepting "the gift" of Microsoft's help and > software. > > > > So $100M is "minuscule" ??? let's face it ... > assuming that they install > > W2K Server, then the city will be faced with > "upgrading" to XP server in > > the future, and of course will need to purchase > "support" contracts for all > > the stuff that they are getting free today. The > idea here is that if M$ > > give away $100M today then they will get it back > in the future ... and of > > course can write off the "gift" against current > income, thus reducing their > > taxes. > > > > > The news comes one week after the administration > canceled > > > a $1.5 million contract awarded last year to > modernize the > > > Police Department's record-keeping. Meffert, who > has been > > > working for weeks on the Microsoft deal, > recommended the > > > contract cancellation after saying the job could > be done > > > for less than $100,000. > > > > But of course they will probably need to buy a > whole slew of new PC's to > > run this new MS software on so I'd guess it's pigs > to the trough for the > > cities favorite PC source... Ah, but that expense > is probably in a > > different budget... > > > > Edmund Cramp > > -- > > http://www.emgsrus.com/graffiti.htm > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and NOLA.com > > > Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 11:29 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [brlug-general] Check out this page on > NOLA.com > > > > > > > > > Dear BRLUG: > > > > > > Kory Wnuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thought you > would be interested > > > in this item from NOLA.com. > > > > > > > http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/newsstory/o_mic > > > rosoft16.html > > > > > > Kory Wnuk says: > > > Wha...wha..what!? It appears that NO is taking > a major step > > > backwards. It would be interesting to see the > agreement between > > > NO and M$. > > > > > > ______________________________ > > > Want more news and info from NOLA.com? > > > Subscribe to My Newsletters and get > > > FREE e-mail updates delivered to your inbox. > > > > > > http://www.nola.com/info/subscribe.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
