[Year 12 Its] Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Programming Awards2006: PD Registrations

[Damien A-B]

Wasn't Unix originally free to universities and then exobitant prices to
businesses?
According to The Cranberry Book, Unix version 6 (circa 1976) was free for
Universities and version 7 cost $100 (government labs and commercial
entities had to pay $21,000). 
Not that I'm a big fan or MS_World_Domination, but essentially it's the same
marketing ploy
Cheers
Damien Atkinson-Buck
IT Department
Keilor Downs College
 

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Subject: [Year 12 Its] Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Programming
Awards2006: PD Registrations

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:51:42AM +1000, gavin at vitta.org.au wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just to clarify (may have been some confusion): entries for the 
> Programming Excellence Awards are still open until September 8, 2006.
> Students who are registered by their teacher at the site before the 
> end of term will receive FREE copies of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 
> sent to their school.

FREE, huh? Get 'em while they're young, milk money from them later on?

 http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/23/microsoft.china.idg/
 
 "Although about three million computers get sold every year in China,
people don't pay for the software," Gates reportedly said. "Someday they
will, though. And as long as they're 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."


It's great to see the Victorian Department of Education helping this process
along ;-) Well done guys.

Cheers,

Con Zymaris

- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)

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