* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Deploying KDE to 52 million young people
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
>| fully deployed and in active use.
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>| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
>| serving some 52,000,000 students.
> `----
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> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
>
> It's a good time for Linux...
>
> Trolls needn't respond. End of thread. ;-)
A commenter has a sour claim, though:
Daengbo said...
I was in Thailand when they made a similar announcement several
years ago, though it was only around 1M. MS came in, made some
back-room deals involving threats of BSA-style audits of the
government (Thailand's piracy rate was huge), and the whole
year-long movement toward FOSS was derailed in a week.
And a followup:
piacentini said...
To Daengbo: Notice that, of course, states and municipalities are
free to change the software installed on these machines, even
switching to Windows if they want to. But in this case, they
loose support. There will always be some conversion rate, but
this is the other side of the coin on a democratic government.
Someone told me that a few years ago, in the initial labs
equipped with Linux in Brazil, there was a 35% conversion rate to
Windows. Now in the installations for the previous version of
Linux Educacional this number is smaller than 10%, and there is
the start of a reverse trend as well, as teachers get used to
desktop with the help of KDE and the usability research.
--
About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay
for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to
steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then
we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
-- Bill Gates, Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in
"Gates, Buffett a bit bearish" CNET News (2 July 1998) [1]
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