On Tuesday 22 April 2008 03:50 pm, Rony wrote:
> 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. In any case the M$ $oftware offered to schools is crippled (no M$office, no media player etc.). If you want all of the bloatware u pay fat money. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
