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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Subject: Re: more on broken schools
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:00:00 -0300
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

> On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>
>>> Thank you! =) I'm hoping that I will be able to convince another
>>> school to dump Azure in favour of our OpenStack environment. Would be
>>> wonderful to have combatted the forces of darkness, and won, at two
>>> schools! =)
>>>
>>> They like the fact that I can give them a fixed price per student and
>>> month, instead of the shitshow that is Azure pricing. They also like
>>> that the school gets a dedicated server, so should someone break in
>>> and do crypto mining, they won't get a large bill like they do with
>>> Azure.
>>>
>>> More often than you would think, do student credentials leak to github
>>> and then they pay for someone crypto mining. That problem they won't
>>> have with my environment. =)
>>
>> Wait---is that service you provide yourself for a price?
>>
>
> Yes, I do. =) Are you interested? ;)

Not quite. :)  I like to run my own stuff.  But I'm happy to see that it
works over there.  It seems like a pretty nice business.  I would really
love to run a business like that.  And I would be able to if I we were
back in the 90s, I guess.  Am I too off the facts?