<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, Feb 05, <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a>, Micha wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats":<br>
<div class="im">> I didn't check it and don't know how it applies to school children, but<br>
> I was told that as a student with a valid student ID you can get a free<br>
> license for MS software, renewed yearly. Combine that with the MS tax<br>
<br>
</div>This doesn't make any sense. Like I said, virtually everyone in the<br>
country either has school-aged children, or can easily find one - so who<br>
*won't* get a free MS license if this was the deal?<br>
<br>
Last time I checked, there were deals for *teachers*, but not for kids<br>
or their families. So the teachers find it very convenient (and cheap)<br>
to use MS, and who cares that the kids' families need to buy all this<br>
expensive software, or alternatively break the law.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 <b>teachers</b> 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. </div>
<div>On that note its worth mentioning that its been said on Microsoft that "its a marketing company that happens to sell software".</div><div>yuck!</div><div>Boaz.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Feb 5 <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a>,<br>
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