Re: [seul-edu] School count

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> 
> Sales people will use the list whether you want them to
> or not. A school here set up a server, Msql database, and
> some other things. The cost to them was very low to nothing.
> Even though they could not have afforded commercial software
> a large software company estimated the cost of replacing the
> free software with commercial software and counted this as
> a loss to their business. It is not the sales managers who
> root out such items.
> 
Two things come to mind.  First, Microsoft (let's name names)
probably already knows about these schools.  All Jennifer's data
are doing is giving us some of the same information.  I don't
see why we shouldn't have access to the information too. 
Second, if we hope to make Linux a major player in education by
sneaking it in unnoticed, we've already lost.  Linux must (and
will) stand on its own strengths.  What Jennifer's list will do
is give us a better chance of refuting MS's lies about Linux in
an educational setting.

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