There will probably be religious controversies if Wikimedia sponsors a Windows toolserver, so our best bet is to find a third party who is willing to put up with the costs.
On Feb 7, 2008 6:02 PM, River Tarnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Simetrical: > > S> Well, I was just surprised that MS would sell a copy of Windows Server > S> 2003 and MS SQL Server to a non-profit for, I think, less than they > S> would sell Vista and Office . . . to that same non-profit. Or do > S> their non-server products also give discounts to nonprofits? > > i did not quote prices for Vista or Office because it didn't seem > relevant (i don't think we want to provide a server for people to > produce Powerpoint slides on). you can search the entire list of > available products at http://www.techsoup.org/, which includes desktop > Windows (at least XP, i didn't check Vista), Office, and a lot of > other software. > > S> Sure, quite possibly -- I'm just saying that it seems like a bad idea > S> to spend money belonging to either the Wikimedia Foundation or any of > S> its local chapters on a new OS if you have don't have reason to > S> believe it will actually give any benefit to Wikimedia users. > > the entire point of this discussion was to find out whether it will > provide a benefit to users (by producing more tools). that is why i > asked people to refrain from discussing whether or not we should > considering deploying Windows; there's no point doing that until we > can see an actual need for it. > > - river. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFHq44IIXd7fCuc5vIRAl2HAJ9y06N7EJOOsrHSxaE6bFInh5W5jgCgkKgn > 6cDfqa3ojJkrSIGon/qpHAA= > =rTej > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l >
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