Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (180 mails)

["Frank Shute" <shute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's quite an interesting article at Salon about how US schools are
being hunted down and fined for using pirated commercial software &
how they are reacting:

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/10/microsoft_school/index.html

Are UK schools going to be next in the line of fire? I've heard that
controlling licences and the paperwork involved is a major time
consumer and administrative nightmare for schools. Anybody got
any personal experience?

The real shocker was getting fined $50000 for 100 odd illegal copies
of MSDOS. I'm sure there are plenty of schools in this country who
have many illegal copies of DOS running under Windows without
realising it.

Anybody been investigated/fined yet?

-- 

 Frank 

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