On Sunday 14 October 2007 22:32:44 jonathon wrote: > On 10/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another thing the schools there can do is just get Open Source > > Software and stop using MS software. > > Maybe. It all depends upon their IT contracts. > > > The contract probably says they will not get MS software free > > or really cheap unless they use MS formats. > > Anything about what their contract says is sheer speculation.
And everything you say about lawsuits and contracts concerning Microsoft taking some individual or School to court is speculation. > > I've seen Microsoft contracts that prohibited the installation of > FLOSS on any computer used by the organization. So we have heard your BS before. Show us one of those contracts. > Will such a > clause hold up in court? Probably not, but what school can > budget anything for a lawsuit against a company that considers > US$1 000 000 000 to be chump change. The government of whatever school it might be would not tolerate MS bringing such a law suit. The News media would have a hay day with it and Microsoft would lose big time even if it did happen and they won in court. Microsoft is not going to sue any one over something like this. When are you going to stop fearing those lawsuits that aren't going to happen? -- http://24.197.142.167/~jack/openofficefaq.php Read the OpenOffice.org FAQ Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
