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This is an article from Sunday's Oregonian. (Did something like this
show up in the Times/P-I, but I just missed it?) Anyway, two cheers for
John Rowlands whose quote is evidence that he is going to bat for the
proponents of computer use in Seattle Schools.
Kurt Sahl
Green Lake School PTA
bluesky@scn.org
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from OregonLive.com.
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Title: Microsoft puts the squeeze on NW schools
Date: 04/21/02
Predatory? Monopolistic? Customer-unfriendly? Microsoft?
Say it ain't, Joe . . . and Steve and John and Scott and the rest of the
computer tech supervisors at the 24 largest school districts in Oregon and
Washington.
At the busiest time of the year for those districts, Microsoft is
demanding that they conduct an internal software audit to "certify
licensing compliance." In a March letter, the software giant gave Portland
Public Schools 60 days to inventory its 25,000 computers.
"Which," said Scott Robinson, the district's chief technology officer, "is
a virtual impossibility."
(Article continues in Web link above. --KS)
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