Dinesh Shah wrote: > Rony, > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Rony <> wrote: > > >> I know their strategy and intentions behind it but what I want to know >> is when an M$ guy distributes free PCs to classrooms and if we want them >> to refuse it, what alternative do we have to offer to those PC-less >> classrooms? >> > > > Offer schools to load Free Software on those PCs . ;-) So that they can have > best of both worlds. Free PC from M$ and Free Software! > > > > What Say? > > That is what I had in mind too. But as JTD mentioned, M$ comps come with that caveat.
In Britain, some schools were given specially discounted M$ software that had an open license which covered all their PCs irrespective of whether they had Doze on them. So even when they purchased new PCs, they had to pay M$ for that machine too even if they did not use Doze on it. Out of frustration they started looking out for full Libre solutions. In this case however, if the schools knocked off Doze from M$ donated machines then what would the penalty be? Would M$ take back the machines or ask the schools to pay a fine? That would be interesting to see, once the media got wind of this. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
