Re: life after Windows....

Martin wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:16:30 -0000, "William Black"
<william.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Martin" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d0rps4h7fblb7dp5ar07b6rt94ma31mubn@xxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:57:58 +0100, Tom P <werotizy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

William Black wrote:
"Tom P" <werotizy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Our local school had some computers donated some years back, but under
the condition that they only run Microsoft software. That's a kind of
ransom on a small scale. I'm not sure how they would be penalized if they
broke the agreement, but I'm not a lawyer.
If it was donated under the usual Microsoft education deal you may find the
school doesn't actually own the hardware.

That could well be the background.
Is there a problem with not owning the PCs? It seems like a good thing to me.
It means you get to do with them only what the titular owner of them allows you to do.

Put them in a cupboard because they're junk and nobody cares, send them to the tip and chances are that nobody will care much either.

Load Ubuntu onto them because it's an easy install on old PCs and it'll run reasonably fast on all that old hardware and you'll be receiving a lawyer's letter on Monday morning...

and why should anybody in his right mind want to do that?

WinXP runs more than fast enough on my 6 year old Dell PCs.

Are you having a love affair with Ubuntu or what?

It's not a question of having a love affair - the Microsoft school program is aimed at making sure kids think that the ONLY way to use computers is the Microsoft way. If you don't like the term brainwashing, just call it product placement - put coke machines in the school cafeteria and the kids will drink coke for the rest of their lives.
BTW do you remember the Olympic winner some years back who was disqualified for wearing a Pepsi t-shirt? Guess who was sponsoring the games..

T.
(written using Thunderbird running under Ubuntu. My other partition has XP)



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