On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 09:16:08AM +0100, Joe wrote: [...]
> > Lets admit it ... the goal is to shovel the money to (mostly) US > > corporations that do not pay any taxes anywhere, to educate the > > children to be slaves of the corporations and to consume as much as > > possible. > > > > > > Indeed. From 2004: > > https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240057429/Newham-staying-with-Microsoft-is-68-cheaper-than-open-source Ah... that was Microsoft's "TCO" [1] campaign back then. Memories... Why. It reminds me of... hmmmm. OH! YES! It's in my spam collection: From: Lean Green Coffee <leangreencof...@yantokersu.net> Subject: 1 "Weird Trick" to Lose FAT Well, duh. Old hat, this. To offer a counterpoint, a couple of years later: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Microsoft-admits-that-TCO-for-developing-nation-s-schools-is-same-for-Linux-and-Windows Cheers [1] TCO == "Total Cost of Ownership". It was that time, where some high profile city councils (Munich, among them [2]) were considering moving to free software, that Microsoft put their PR machine in motion to "prove" that their software is cheaper. Well, duh. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux LiMux is no more. Some say it has to do with Microsoft moving its European headquarters to Munich. Luckily, they can't put their headquarters in each and every European city, so now Barcelona runs on free software. And the whole region of Extremadura. And... - t
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