<p dir="ltr">First Safaricom. Then KQ. Now JKUAT.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Seems diversification of business is an official trend :D</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 Aug 2016 4:10 p.m., "Odhiambo Washington via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I hear the "special software" is MS Office Students Edition. How that is perceived to be better than the FOSS versions beats me. Given that MS Office is a MS Windows-based suite, it therefore means Taifa Laptop runs some version of Windows.<div>I believe the students can get very good hardware for that price and run FOSS software on them (something like Edubuntu) and that will be much more value for money than Taifa. But perhaps KU wants their ROI from the assembly plant and what other way to get that than force their product down the throat of the students?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2016 at 16:04, waudo siganga via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>The "special software" narrative just sounds rhetorical. What is so special about a software that it can only run on a particular type of laptop? What OS are they using?</div><div><div>
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<div dir="ltr">All i know is that parents are being forced to buy Taifa Laptop because it has "special software" designed to assist students in their learning process....</div>
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