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.
On Feb 7, 2008 6:02 PM, River Tarnell river@wikimedia.org wrote:
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S> Well, I was just surprised that MS would sell a copy of Windows Server S> 2003 and MS SQL Server to a non-profit for, I think, less than they S> would sell Vista and Office . . . to that same non-profit. Or do S> their non-server products also give discounts to nonprofits?
i did not quote prices for Vista or Office because it didn't seem relevant (i don't think we want to provide a server for people to produce Powerpoint slides on). you can search the entire list of available products at http://www.techsoup.org/, which includes desktop Windows (at least XP, i didn't check Vista), Office, and a lot of other software.
S> Sure, quite possibly -- I'm just saying that it seems like a bad idea S> to spend money belonging to either the Wikimedia Foundation or any of S> its local chapters on a new OS if you have don't have reason to S> believe it will actually give any benefit to Wikimedia users.
the entire point of this discussion was to find out whether it will provide a benefit to users (by producing more tools). that is why i asked people to refrain from discussing whether or not we should considering deploying Windows; there's no point doing that until we can see an actual need for it.
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