I can give you our story.. Microsoft said that if we didn't pay them approximately $15,000 they were going to audit us which may have cost us significantly more. We made a verbal deal with them that if we went with the school agreement we wouldn't have to worry about paying the money. We went with the school agreement and then they turned around and said we still owed them $15,000. We ended up paying it to get them off our backs. They were underhanded bastards.
Adam M. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:00:37 +0000, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just had a rather disturbing phone call from a client school. > Apparently some FAST (Federation against Software Theft) bully has just > been scaring them to death about software licensing, mentioning prison > sentences and such like and then offering to audit their systems if they > pay �5000. > > The only good side to this is that it seems to have convinced the deputy > head involved that they really ought to have a Free software strategy. > My advice is for any school threatened in this way to say that they have > just been convinced that its time to shift all their systems to Open > Source. The risk of using proprietary software is simply too great. > > -- > Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ZMS Ltd > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
