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FREE HARDWARE for schools from a Microsoft lawsuit settlement in California

cde.ca.gov — This is true. If you are a public school employee and your school needs new computers, you can get computers with Apple or Linux or even (choke, cough) Microsoft Windows or no OS at all. Courtesy of the anti-trust lawyers who sued Microsoft on behalf of consumers in California. You can also get free software! Go for it!

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  • einfeldt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@thenativeraver

    Yes, apparently this anti-trust lawsuit was all about increasing competition on the desktop. Microsoft is the center of the desktop business hub, and so it's my impression that the idea behind the settlement was that the software needs a place to live, i.e., the desktop, and so one way to diversify the desktop is to give consumers a choice in desktop hardware.
  • thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A software company gets a lawsuit and schools get hardware?
  • Buttercup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow this is great. i hope more schools take advantage of it!
  • schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow! No funny money this time (S/W coupon, which are not usable for Free software)?

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