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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: more on broken schools
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 21:33:54 -0300
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>
>> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>>>
>>>> These days, even computer science departments are completely based on
>>>> Google services, say.  Students don't even have the chance to run the
>>>> local mail server.  It's appalling.
>>>
>>> Not all hope is lost! ;) My courses are based on linux and for the
>>> cloud part, they are based on our own OpenStack environment! =D
>>
>> Yay---a 4-leaf clover. :P  Seriously, though: good job.
>
> 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?