That's what MS is about. But if the schools sign the contract, they are
part of the problem.
The deal apparently means that even Macintosh and Linux machines pay the
MS tax. This is bad for OOo because many administrators thing that just
because something came bundled with whatever agreement that they must use,
regardless of technical merits. Mix and match to find best of breed is
something that we must work to resurrect otherwise OOo will have a hard
time in cases like that.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Roger Markus wrote:
So this outrageous situation of charging people for something that they're
not even using is illegal in the USA - Microsoft's home country - but
they're continuing to do it other countries where there is some legal
loophole? Microsoft obviously has the same morals as organized crime. It
doesn't matter how - just make people pay!
RM
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