Credit where credit is due.

[techs]

The proceeds will match a challenge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Online Opportunity Grant to assist the Library in upgrading their public access computers. The main goal of the grant is to help libraries and their communities build long-term capacity for supporting free computer and Internet access in public libraries.


My town is having a fund raiser to get matching funds from the Bill and Melind Gates Foundation.

I guess the only questions is, do you have buy computers with Windows?
Or can you get Macs?

 

[lxskllr]

Macs would be a frivolous waste of money. Open source is the best way to go. It pays now, and into the future.

 

[her209]

Doesn't say.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org...ade-grants-090716.aspx

 

[Mojoed]

:thumbsup:

Our local library system got a nice fat grant from the Gates Foundation. We ended up getting 12 brand new Dell's for the new computer lab. They're always in use, usually a wait to get online. Before this, we had 4 crappy old computers.

Gates Foundation ftw

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Macs would be a frivolous waste of money. Open source is the best way to go. It pays now, and into the future.

Yeah, go with the free OS - Windows!

 

[sygyzy]

You'd have to be an idiot to think the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is anything but the real deal.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
You'd have to be an idiot to think the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is anything but the real deal.

:thumbsup:

It's an amazing organization. I also think that Warren Buffet deserves a lot of recognition for swallowing any pride or ego he might have and just donating his entire fortune to the Gates Foundation.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a completely separate entity from Microsoft; just because it was founded by Bill Gates does not mean that it's a vehicle to promote Microsoft products. So, no, it shouldn't matter what kinds of computers you buy, though, as another poster pointed out, Macs are more expensive (this sentence needs an additional comma, I think, so I'll add a couple within this parenthetic addendum).