There will probably be religious controversies if Wikimedia sponsors a Windows toolserver, so our best bet is to find a third party who is willing to put up with the costs.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 7, 2008 6:02 PM, River Tarnell <<a href="mailto:river@wikimedia.org">river@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Simetrical:<br><br></div>S> Well, I was just surprised that MS would sell a copy of Windows Server<br>
S> 2003 and MS SQL Server to a non-profit for, I think, less than they<br>S> would sell Vista and Office . . . to that same non-profit. Or do<br>S> their non-server products also give discounts to nonprofits?<br>
<br>i did not quote prices for Vista or Office because it didn't seem<br>relevant (i don't think we want to provide a server for people to<br>produce Powerpoint slides on). you can search the entire list of<br>available products at <a href="http://www.techsoup.org/" target="_blank">http://www.techsoup.org/</a>, which includes desktop<br>
Windows (at least XP, i didn't check Vista), Office, and a lot of<br>other software.<br><br>S> Sure, quite possibly -- I'm just saying that it seems like a bad idea<br>S> to spend money belonging to either the Wikimedia Foundation or any of<br>
S> its local chapters on a new OS if you have don't have reason to<br>S> believe it will actually give any benefit to Wikimedia users.<br><br>the entire point of this discussion was to find out whether it will<br>
provide a benefit to users (by producing more tools). that is why i<br>asked people to refrain from discussing whether or not we should<br>considering deploying Windows; there's no point doing that until we<br>can see an actual need for it.<br>
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