Somehow I think that what is interesting about this story is what is not 
reported.
I would guess that the following might be true
1) This man was not popular for reasons unknown.
2) the educational authority employed an exorbitantly and unnecessarily 
expensive IT company to remove all traces of Seti@home & boinc
3) Above said IT company exagerated the task of removing Seti & boinc
4) People at the said educational authority are totally unappreciative of 
Seti and regard it as nothing else than a childish, foolish and futile game
5) There were other personality clashes in the educational authority.
6) He effectively slowed up the entire educational system to an 
unprecedented degree
7) The report of having to replace 2,300 processors probably means that if 
any computer was a little bit suspect the IT company repaced the processor, 
whether or not that was really necessary.
Possibly some processors were damaged if the cooling fins on the CPU were 
very dirty with accumulated dust.
8) Probably a lot of these computers were at least a bit old & out of date 
anyway
9) Personally I think that in all likelihood ToDoTech made a killing outof 
this.
10) Quote:-    It's not easy to remove it," Birdwell said. "You just can't 
hit an uninstall button."     :- Obviously not heard of RevoUninstall.
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All that being said:- Brad Niesluchowski was quite wrong and foolish to 
install this software without permission.
However I think it is likely that Higley Unified School District has been 
taken for a ride by at least one of the IT "consultants" called in to sort 
out the problem.


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