A correction: This kind of licence-agreements were stopped in USA 11 years ago ( 1994 Microsoft Consent Decree) , in Norway it is still legal.
mh On 12/14/05, Martin Hauge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 in USA 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] > > > > >
