At 06:08 -0700 on 01/08/02, Teri Pittman wrote: >At 04:39 AM 08/01/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >>This story just doesn't ring true. Microsoft make their newest software >>available cheap for schools ( As a student I bought new, licensed, XP and >>Office for $6 each) >>-- > >In Oregon, MS was trying to insist that any donated PCs had to be kept with >the OS they were sold with (i.e. don't put Linux on them!) AND, if you >didn't have the original license material, you had to purchase new licenses >and you purchased for everyone in the school, whether they used a computer >or not. AND you purchase licenses for Macs, because they might use MS >products.
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