Comments on: Call to Abolish BECTA, Which Appoints Microsoft Children’s Parent http://techrights.org/2009/10/19/call-to-abolish-becta/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2009/10/19/call-to-abolish-becta/comment-page-1/#comment-74435 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:50:48 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=20267#comment-74435 “Neither Apple nor Microsoft should be acceptable for education. Apple would actually be much worse for education because of the overpriced hardware monopoly. ”
Yep, as I said before, that was another mess altogether, dating back to the early 8-bit days of microcomputing:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/942005082731/m/978003184931?r=573003484931#573003484931
http://books.google.com/books?id=NDAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=computer%20clones%20infoworld%201982&as_pt=MAGAZINES&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
But on the other hand, does it really matter? The concepts are mostly the same, after all.

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