Environmental Values at Robert Pogson

“A shareholder proposal to set up a board committee for environmental sustainability failed. Harrington Investments, a small firm in California’s Napa Valley, supported the plan.

“It’s extremely important that the directors recognize that sustainability, environmental sustainability, is a criteria for just about any publicly traded company on the globe,” the firm’s president, John Harrington, said at the meeting. He said Intel had adopted a similar committee.

The Microsoft board recommended rejecting the proposal, saying the company already has incorporated environmental values.”

see Report on Shareholders’ Meeting with M$

Isn’t that cute? Wintel environmentally friendly? Chucking working machines after three or four years? Software bloat? Laughable. People should drop that other OS and use GNU/Linux so they can get more value from hardware expenditures and reduce the demand for natural resources and production of waste.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.