>not about any promotion
You sure? Last I checked Google, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments have aggressive business deals with the educational sector to make sure no other company gets an edge there. I had to buy a nspire calculator for example, since teachers received commissions for the damn things (while in obligatory school).
In university, we had our own servers for various services such as email, until Microsoft came wavering their money around and literally "offering for free" their products for that university.
The sheer market manipulation these companies do is obscene, there really isn't competition, and our kids aren't offered the high quality and respectful services they deserve. In the case of Texas instruments, parents will have their pockets robbed. Thing cost my parents 200 bucks, and the only thing it was used for, was rendering some fancy parabolas.
Anyways, I didn't mean to throw private contracts out the window completely. And, have since clarified that in another reply to this thread.
The sheer market manipulation these companies do is obscene, there really isn't competition, and our kids aren't offered the high quality and respectful services they deserve. In the case of Texas instruments, parents will have their pockets robbed. Thing cost my parents 200 bucks, and the only thing it was used for, was rendering some fancy parabolas.
Anyways, I didn't mean to throw private contracts out the window completely. And, have since clarified that in another reply to this thread.