Anyone else seen this?
https://tdlwd.tn.gov/ElevateAmerica/
In cooperation with Microsoft® Corporation, the State of Tennessee is
pleased to offer vouchers for E-Learning courses and select
certification exams at no cost to you. To learn more about Microsoft
Elevate America please visit
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 03:12:34PM -0500, Michael Chaney wrote:
You can probably guess the gist of the e-learning courses.
I'm obviously missing something here. How is this a dirty
trick?
John
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We must respect the
I am guessing M$ doesn't want TN to be the 'latest state to move their office
suite to Google Apps'. Legal? Yes. Predatory marketing? Yes. Do I wish we
had taken them the other way (by making a big deal with the public about
'free office suite' from Google? Yes.
IMHO, GatesCo have done one
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Chris McQuistion
cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote:
I don't understand how this is dirty, either? If they want to give
something away, why can't they? Google could give stuff away (and does).
Apple could give stuff away (but doesn't.) Linux could give stuff away
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Michael Chaney
mdcha...@michaelchaney.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Chris McQuistion
cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote:
I don't understand how this is dirty, either? If they want to give
something away, why can't they? Google could give stuff away
'Free' and Microsoft in the same sentence makes it an oxymoron.
Even 'free' and Google (or any other company) gets me wondering.
Google's model is usually 'we will put some adds on your ..(drug dejour)..'
Microsoft is more like Gillette, give away the razor, sell the blades.
(upgrades,
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:05 PM, j...@coats.org j...@coats.org wrote:
'Free' and Microsoft in the same sentence makes it an oxymoron.
Even 'free' and Google (or any other company) gets me wondering.
Google gave me a free phone (Droid) just for writing an Android app
that became popular.
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 05:05:44PM -0500, j...@coats.org wrote:
'Free' and Microsoft in the same sentence makes it an oxymoron.
You do realize, I hope, that m$ is one of the top-ranking
companies in charitble contributions?
This is just another marketing ploy from M$. I just
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:05 PM, j...@coats.org j...@coats.org wrote:
'Free' and Microsoft in the same sentence makes it an oxymoron.
Even 'free' and Google (or any other company) gets me wondering.
Google gave me a free
All this talk about 'free' being possibly bad and having ulterior motives
makes me a little confused.
Isn't Linux and the Free Software movement all about 'free' (as in beer)
just as much as free (as in speech)?
How can the same people that applaud Linux being 'free' give Microsoft a
hard time
I am sure I do hold a double standard. But I have held this one for a long time
since Bill Gates published his 'Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists' in 1976,
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html
But I am sure that is just my baggage. No, I didn't use M$ basic, I
used
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Chris McQuistion
cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote:
All this talk about 'free' being possibly bad and having ulterior motives
makes me a little confused.
Isn't Linux and the Free Software movement all about 'free' (as in beer)
just as much as free (as in speech)?
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote:
All this talk about 'free' being possibly bad and having ulterior motives
makes me a little confused.
Isn't Linux and the Free Software movement all about 'free' (as in beer)
just as much as free (as in speech)?
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Michael Chaney
mdcha...@michaelchaney.com wrote:
Wow. McDonald's will give you a free paycheck if you work for them, too.
Google Adsense for Mobile Content pays well. Whatever Google is
making on the ads I show in my Android apps, it's more than fine with
me :)
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