[Am-info] Microsoft to help design high school in Philadelphia

[John J. Urbaniak]

Mark Dodel wrote:

> Like this bankrupt school system needs Microsoft's free advise to throw
> money down the toilet:
>
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-09-04-microsoft-high-school_x.htm
>
> "PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Extending its reach in public education, Microsoft
> said Thursday it will help design a new $46 million public high school in
> Philadelphia that will embed computer technology everywhere from
> classrooms and administrative offices to the desk of the football coach."
>

...

>
> They are insidious bastards.  For next to nothing they will get their
> virusware into the schools to further control the mindset of our children,
> and they get to make it sound like they are doing something altruistic.
>

I don't completely agree.  Microsoft is trying to get new business for itself.  It's hard to say that's completely evil.  What company wouldn't try to expand its business?

IBM, on the other hand, sold out its own products, its customers and partners.  IBM handed Microsoft its monopoly.  IBM refused to compete with Microsoft.  What IBM received in return for this betrayal of the entire computing sector of the world's economy is yet to be uncovered.  IBM executives are insidious bastards.

The PC Press also are insidious.  They took sides in the "OS Wars" and supported the Microsoft oligarchy.

And the Bush Administration let them off the hook.  That was insidious too.

John