Re: [vox] Why not Microsoft?

[Rod Roark <MAPSrod@sunsetsystems.com>]

I doubt there's much consistency.  The article says a lot of
them are donated, and the others were mostly likely bought
piecemeal.  There might not even be much networking going on.
Many machines are probably non- or semi-working and you'd
have to figure out how to sanitize those.

Then you have to actually talk to people about how each
machine is used.  There's probably a lot of non-MS material
that will have to be backed up and restored.

I'd be VERY surprised if it were so easy.

-- Rod

On Monday 22 April 2002 13:56, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> rod, it could be an easy job -- just think about beowulf clusters. 
> they don't do all that by hand.  redhat has a utility that you set
> up one computer, make a floppy disk that reads all the relevent info
> and clones the machine.
>
> if their systems are mostly homogeneous, it would be as simple as
> booting up a computer with a floppy disk.
>
> pete
>
>
> begin Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystems.com>
>
> > Well they have about 25,000 computers.  :-)
> >
> > Seriously though, I would love to help out with such an
> > effort on a smaller scale and closer to home.
> >
> > -- Rod
> >    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
> >
> > On Monday 22 April 2002 13:43, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > wouldn't it be a cool advertising campaign if we got a bunch of
> > > people together to make a road trip to oregon and do a linux
> > > installfest for the school system?
> > >
> > > forget slashdot.  that would be like "new york times" or
> > > "washington post" kind of media attention.   :)
> > >
> > > pete
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > begin Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystems.com>
> > >
> > > > Same tactics, different school system.  Problem is, nobody
> > > > ever gives a second thought to accepting the EULA, even
> > > > though it gives MS the right to stomp all over them.
> > > >
> > > > -- Rod
> > > >    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
> > > >
> > > > On Monday 22 April 2002 13:25, nbs wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:04:25PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> > > > > > Geez, MS is adding material faster than I can put it
> > > > > > in....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/22/1719218.shtml?tid=10
> > > > > >9
> > > > >
> > > > > Hehe.. Old news. :)  From my archive:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >   Microsoft to schools: Give us your lunch money!
> > > > > (Salon.com, 2001.Jul.10) [
> > > > > http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/10/microsoft_schoo
> > > > >l/in dex. html ]
> > > > >
> > > > >   "Microsoft threatened to sue unless the administrative
> > > > > offices and all 264 schools conducted an audit and proved
> > > > > that every piece of installed Microsoft software had a valid
> > > > > license. ... 'Can anyone expect a dying person to be
> > > > > concerned about the drug companies' profits?' ... the fines
> > > > > for just the MS-DOS [illegal] copies could add up to as much
> > > > > as $19.8 million, not even counting lawyer's fees."
> > > > >
> > > > > :)
> > > > >
> > > > > -bill!

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