Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (194 mails)

[Roger Whittaker <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We have heard that the Office of Fair Trading is undertaking an
investigation into the Microsoft School Agreement.

The subject matter and purpose of the investigation is:

'The OFT has reasonable grounds for suspecting that Microsoft has abused
a dominant position through the introduction of its School Agreement
licensing option, in particular, through the requirement for all schools
licensed under the School Agreement to licence Microsoft software for
all eligible computers, regardless of whether schools then choose to
install the licensed Microsoft software on all those computers including
the licensing terms.'

Information on Microsoft's School Agreement licensing option can be
found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/how-to-buy/edu-licensing/school-agreement/

If you have comments on this which you wish to pass on to the OFT, please
contact me off the list with details and I will pass on the information to
them.

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Roger Whittaker
SuSE Linux Ltd
Appleton House
139 King Street
Hammersmith
W6 9JG

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