[K12OSN] Comment from principal about lab.

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

You're right.  But you *can* show him the following article:

   http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/05/13/schools-microsoft.htm

Then, show him how Microsoft did the shake-down on Philadelphia Public
Schools:

  
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/10/microsoft_school/index.html

"Oh, but it won't happen to us!"  Yeah...Portland and Philly thought it
wouldn't happen to them, either....

--TP
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Steve Hargadon wrote:
> You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think...
>
> On 3/5/07, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>>
>>  That's actually a good question to ask that principal.
>>
>>  --TP
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>  Petre Scheie wrote:
>> Not that you would say it out loud, but my first reaction is to ask
>> "Which
>> teachers will we cut so that we can buy all those expensive Windows
>> boxes
>> and hire the additional support staff to keep all those Windows boxes
>> running?  Or were you (the principal) going to take the cut from your
>> salary?"
>>
>>  Grrr.
>>
>>  Petre
>>
>>  Joseph Bishay wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>  So I thought I would vent here. I was at the school just checking on
>>  the lab after a power failure.
>>
>>  I was using the boot floppy on the clients and made the comment that
>>  hopefully in our new school (see the other thread about a new
>>  building.)  we would not need the boot disks. The principal replies
>>  with "hopefully in the new school we will have Windows instead of
>>  this."
>>
>>  * Sigh*  I wonder why I ever bother.
>>
>>  Joseph
>>
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