On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, Micha wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to > shift to non-propriety documents formats": > > I didn't check it and don't know how it applies to school children, but > > I was told that as a student with a valid student ID you can get a free > > license for MS software, renewed yearly. Combine that with the MS tax > > This doesn't make any sense. Like I said, virtually everyone in the > country either has school-aged children, or can easily find one - so who > *won't* get a free MS license if this was the deal? > > Last time I checked, there were deals for *teachers*, but not for kids > or their families. So the teachers find it very convenient (and cheap) > to use MS, and who cares that the kids' families need to buy all this > expensive software, or alternatively break the law. > I happen to have more than 1 teacher in my family. That's exactly M$ tactics for "raising" the young generation to their interest: give the * teachers* extremely cheap M$ licenses and that way enforce the "right" educations for their students, who'll grow knowing as little as possible about alternatives. About the price, I'm aware of an offer maybe 3-4 years old - teachers got the latest Windows license at that time + full office that cost back then more than 2K NIS, at... <drum rolls>make your bets!...</drum rolls> - a little over 200nis. That's right! About a magnitude of the real market price. On that note its worth mentioning that its been said on Microsoft that "its a marketing company that happens to sell software". yuck! Boaz. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Feb 5 > 2012, > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Writing software is like sex: One > mistake > http://nadav.harel.org.il |and you have to support it forever. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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