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Romanians Sent to Prison After Corruption Over Microsoft Licences in Schools

posted by martyb on Tuesday March 29 2016, @06:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the microsoft-and-fraud dept.

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Last month, we took note of Microsoft [licenses] in the midst of high-profile corruption and a former Romanian minister is finally going to prison over it. To quote one article about this (in English, not Romanian):

"Romania's high court of cassation and justice on Thursday jailed the former telecommunications minister, Gabriel Sandu, for two years for money laundering, abuse of office, and bribery involving the lease of Microsoft IT licenses for schools.

"The ex-mayor of the eastern town of Piatra Neamt, Gheorghe Stefan, and two other businessmen who acted as middlemen also got jail terms of up to three years.

"The four defendants have also to pay a total of almost 10 million euros in compensation. The Supreme Court's sentence is not final."

It is worth noting that, owing to such corruption, it is Microsoft--not GNU/Linux and Free software--that makes it into Romanian schools. Recent reports serve to indicate Microsoft corruption in other countries; this is still the subject of a US-led probe which maybe some more corruption can somehow scuttle.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 29 2016, @09:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 29 2016, @09:24AM (#324295)

    Edubuntu maintainer Stéphane Graber has announced via one of the official mailing lists [ubuntu.com] that Edubuntu won't be getting a 16.04 LTS release.

    I'm sending this e-mail on behalf of the current Edubuntu project leaders, Jonathan Carter and myself.

    [...]at the start, we both had a considerable amount of spare time to invest in making Edubuntu great, even getting paid for it at times, that is simply not the case anymore.

    We've both moved on to new projects, with the hope that we would one day find some time to work on Edubuntu again. That's why we decided to make Edubuntu LTS-only after the 14.04 release, hoping that over the course of two years we would find the needed time to make a good Edubuntu 16.04 LTS. This plan didn't quite work out as we're now a month away from the 16.04 release with little to no work having been done on Edubuntu.

    [...]Edubuntu will NOT be releasing a 16.04 LTS version. Instead, Jonathan and I will focus on ongoing support of Edubuntu 14.04 LTS until it goes EOL in April 2019.

    [...]new contributors are absolutely welcome to take over the Edubuntu project and shape it to their liking.

    Marius Nestor at Softpedia notes [softpedia.com]

    If you care about the future of Edubuntu, go ahead and help the devs keep it alive [edubuntu.org].

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by bitstream on Tuesday March 29 2016, @08:01PM

    by bitstream (6144) on Tuesday March 29 2016, @08:01PM (#324489) Journal

    Why use Edubuntu instead of a normal Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian, Devuan or even som *BSD?

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday March 29 2016, @08:42PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 29 2016, @08:42PM (#324511) Journal

      Why use Edubuntu instead of a normal Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian, Devuan or even som *BSD?

      Because the schools are strapped for cash and cannot pay a full IT admin to manage all the computers and the level of access to the network (no pr0n for kids, restricted activities on internet, special access for professors account, managing the learning content and the process of creation, etc).

      See Edubuntu features [wikipedia.org] and you'll note Linux Terminal Server, Sabayon Profile Manager, Sabayon Profile Manager, Gnome Nanny.
      Look on what these do and what are for, then extrapolate.

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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford