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____/ Homer on Monday 18 Jul 2011 06:53 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>> Howard County Library and Ubuntu
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Well today I stepped foot inside Howard County Library in Woodbine,
>> | MD for the first time and saw that all of their computers were in
>> | fact still using Ubuntu. It was so much cooler in real life than what
>> | I read about it.
>> `----
>>
>> http://thethoughtsbubble.blogspot.com/2011/07/howard-county-library-and-ubuntu.html
>>
>> Has Pearly Gates tried to bribe them away from it yet?
>
> He's not trying very hard. Microsoft dumped libraries in the shitter
> last year, after refusing to update software developed by the Gates
> Fundation:
>
> http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/microsoft-decision-puts-public-libraries-at-risk/
>
> Actually, that's an interesting point. Since when is the Gates Fundation
> a software development company? I thought it was supposed to be a
> charity (or a eugenics and agri-patents investment company, whichever).
The tax-exempt Gates Foundation sometimes steps alongside Microsoft Corp. to help
in countries which step "out of line" by using GNU/Linux in schools.
The investment arm (mostly in patents) Gates Foundation spends about $1 million
/per day/ on PR alone. They call it "advocacy" (another name for reputation
laundering and perception management, for Gates and his clients/investments).
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~~ Best of wishes
Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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