____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 18:04 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Singapore charity creates Edubuntu computer lab for terminally ill children
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Using donated hardware from the Overseas Family School and National
>>| University of Singapore, the Linux Meetup Group used to power of LTSP to
>>| deploy 9 thin clients and 1 combined desktop/server.
>> `----
>>
>> http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1066
>>
>
> Wow. Wonderful. Just when you think that corporate interests have
> destroyed any meaning to the term "society", you see something like
> this.
Yes, and I was not the only one to have thought so. Remember how Microsoft
retracted its free Office offers last month. It was in the Reg and it led to a
small commotion. Charities whose files are locked in to DOC/XLS/whatever (i.e.
Microsoft Office only) are now forced to pay plenty of money not to serve and
achieve their goals, but to access data, which is now perpetually held
hostage. Microsoft had charities addicted. The same goes for some people in
poor nations.
Microsoft needs to create some revenue growth. It began squeezing the goose
(similar to opening the anti-Linux FUD arsenal). From here onwards, Microsoft
will be loathed more than anyone could ever imagine. Hopefully, history will
have it remembered in a suitable way, not the Gates' way (he buys media
companies and created museums).
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~~ Best of wishes
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