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Re: [opensuse-edu] [Fwd: One computer per two children for your primary school byOctober.]
- From: Philip Hands <phil@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:27:01 +0100
- Message-id: <46927DF5.6030905@xxxxxxxxx>
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Richard Smedley wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:38 -0400, Robison, Jonathon (M.) wrote:
>> UK only????
>
> Hello Jonathon,
>
> Yes, sorry - it's the UK that needs the most help :(
> 1.5 billion Euros of Education IT spend puring into a black
> hole every year. :-/
I'm sure you already know this, but just in case, you should make sure that
the lucky winner does not have a site license from Microsoft.
I was rather disgusted to discover that one school to which I donated ~50
computers (saved from an international bank's skip) on which they were
running Linux, resulted in Microsoft making at least 5k, and probably
closer to 10k per year more in license fees. *vomit*
The reason being that the school's site license was worded such that any
pentium class or better machine incurs an additional license fee,
regardless of whether it had any M$ software installed, or not, and that
probably included paying the extra for the office suit that they also
wouldn't be installing on those machines.
It occurs to me that one possible way of avoiding that, and saving the
planet at the same time, would be to produce ARM (or some other non-intel)
based machines which would sidestep the pentium-or-better nonsense, and
would save the country a few power stations if widely deployed.
Cheers, Phil.
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Richard Smedley wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:38 -0400, Robison, Jonathon (M.) wrote:
>> UK only????
>
> Hello Jonathon,
>
> Yes, sorry - it's the UK that needs the most help :(
> 1.5 billion Euros of Education IT spend puring into a black
> hole every year. :-/
I'm sure you already know this, but just in case, you should make sure that
the lucky winner does not have a site license from Microsoft.
I was rather disgusted to discover that one school to which I donated ~50
computers (saved from an international bank's skip) on which they were
running Linux, resulted in Microsoft making at least 5k, and probably
closer to 10k per year more in license fees. *vomit*
The reason being that the school's site license was worded such that any
pentium class or better machine incurs an additional license fee,
regardless of whether it had any M$ software installed, or not, and that
probably included paying the extra for the office suit that they also
wouldn't be installing on those machines.
It occurs to me that one possible way of avoiding that, and saving the
planet at the same time, would be to produce ARM (or some other non-intel)
based machines which would sidestep the pentium-or-better nonsense, and
would save the country a few power stations if widely deployed.
Cheers, Phil.
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