TechRights reports
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.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday March 29 2016, @09:35PM
You can teach programming just fine using FreeDOS, but "PC" is a fairly vague point. Assuming, you mean, teach them how to use a modern computer, yeah, Teaching them FreeDOS won't do much good. They need to be taught on at least a somewhat recent GUI with a decent word processing suite. Something that runs Libre Office would work fine.
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