[sf-lug] MSFT: $1M -> St. Anthony's

[Tom Haddon]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:14 -0700, jim wrote:
> 
>    eric showed up last night with two things 
> on his mind. one was MSFT giving $1M to St. 
> Anthony's Golden Gate Street computer center. 

Just like to point out that the story actually says, "A $1 million
software grant from Microsoft Corp. helped fund the center". There's a
big difference between giving them $1m and giving them $1m in "donated
software from MS". Would be interesting to know if there are any terms
attached. Does St. Anthony's really have enough computers to run $1m of
MS software on it, or does this mean they're donating some of the
software to individuals or organizations outside of St. Anthony's?

Cheers, Tom

> (i forget the other, i got so alarmed.) 
> 
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/BU0A13GFMU.DTL 
> 
>    this probably means the 37 computers in 
> the computer learning center will be all 
> windows-based so's to foster excel skills. 
>    will st. a's be willing to integrate open 
> source software? 
> 
> 
> 
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