The problem is that 12 of the 18 Norwegian counties have signed at School Agreement contract with Microsoft. This contract claims that all the PCs in each school must be counted to fulfil the contract. The School Agreement is a cheap and easy-to-administrate licence-arrangement. Up till now more than 50.000 MS licences are sold on a 3 years contract-period.
The bad news for OOo is that if a school want to save some licence costs by let some classrooms run OOo, the school still have to pay Microsoft-licenses - also for the OOO-PCs. In other words, the schools have to pay Microsoft-licences also for Linux- and OOo PCs. We now hope that the competition authorities will interfere with the School Agreement and its monopoly confirming effects. As far as I have understood, those contracts were forbidden already in 1994. The article comments that this is brutal market-adaption to the fact that OpenOffice is winning market-shares, and that the widespread of OpenOffice probably is the reason for this offensive from Microsoft, and that the 12 counties should be grateful to the two counties (Akershus and Møre og Romsdal) that have promoted OpenOffice and financed the Norwegian translation. Martin Hauge (representing the County of Møre and Romsdal) On 12/13/05, Lars D. Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OpenOffice.org got mentioned as starting to eat into MSO's marketshare in > Norway. This was towards the end of an article about MS Norway pressing > Norwegian schools to pay MS licensing fees on computers running non-MS > systems and apps, regardless. The schools are working out a collective > agreement to lease MS software again: > > http://www.digi.no/php/art.php?id=283444 > > -Lars > Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog ... > ... until you start barking. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
