[NBLUG/talk] #se7en -- http://windows7sins.org/

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Wed Sep 2 23:41:18 PDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:59:00PM -0700, Tim Preston wrote:
>    I work for a school and I have been trying to influence the "powers that
>    be" to look at the real value of alternate sources (like open source).
>    However, we, being an educational institution, are given some deep
>    discounts on M$ products so that we can teach the software used in the
>    "majority" of businesses so our students can get jobs in the current
>    employment environment. OUCH!

One of the slides I saw during a talk at OSCON was about this topic.
Of course, it had logos of all of the topic business software folks
coming out of school need to be expert in today, like Word Perfect.

Oops.

;)

-bill!



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