[NCLUG] Public comments on Microsoft Anti-Trust Case Settlement requested

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake Eric Brunson:
> 
> 
> I'm totally against it.
> 
> Firstly, the largest portion of the "penalty" is in licensing costs.
> How much is Microsoft really losing by "donating" these licenses?
> It's already been stated that these are under-privileged schools which
> probably couldn't afford to by computers and software on their own.
> Microsoft is simply getting increased market penetration with minimal
> loss of revenue.  I seem to remember also reading that support
> contracts for these schools would be negotiated and a discounted rate,
> i.e. not free.  Anything they would lose in licensing they're going to
> make up in support contracts.

 Yeah, to make it a *penalty* they should have to buy a bunch of Mac's
with software and support for those underpriveledged schools. Now that
would be a penalty and the kids (I'm assuming they are at the lower spectrum
of the grade scale here) would have a nice simple interface that wouldn't
get in the way of learning.

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