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 <LeanGreenCoffee@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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