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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Ross, Matthew wrote:
> > > Its impressive that they got Windows not to crash on that many
> > > machines long enough to get a reading ;-)
> > >
> > > Wonder what the licensing fee was for that many copies of Windows?
> >
> > Probably zero. If you go to their home page and do the obvious
> > searches, you'll see they are totally and completely in bed with MS.
> > It's really pretty eerie...
>
> A lot of higher ed is in bed with MS, they get unreal discounts, but
> I've yet to see it be completely free.
Try making a top500 machine running Windows and I'll bet you get free
Windows. It's like a huge advertisement for them.
I'm sure they give deep discounts to universities for similarly selfish
reasons -- millions of students pass through the universities and they get
used to using windows. Then they want to use it on the job and at home
and they teach their kids to use it too.
Mike
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