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Re: [opensuse-edu] [Fwd: One computer per two children for your primary school by October.]
- From: Richard Smedley <smedley358@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:53:28 +0100
- Message-id: <1184082808.4208.194.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:27 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> > 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*
Hello Phil,
Thanks for the tip off, I'd nearly forgotten about that.
> 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's a great lock-in tool, we can only admire their
business skills :-(
> 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.
Arm-based thin clients are great, one of my colleagues
does have some, and we use them as demo clients at shows.
I wonder if the 601 and 602 PowerPCs count as Pentium-class?
Another client-side issue for schools - particularly primary
schools - is the space taken up by PCs and monitors, and the
problems of moving them each time the classroom is re-arranged
(not something they do so often in high schools).
We're looking at various thin client solutions, including laptops,
but would rather we could use regular recycled boxen :-/
Regards,
- Richard
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> > 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*
Hello Phil,
Thanks for the tip off, I'd nearly forgotten about that.
> 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's a great lock-in tool, we can only admire their
business skills :-(
> 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.
Arm-based thin clients are great, one of my colleagues
does have some, and we use them as demo clients at shows.
I wonder if the 601 and 602 PowerPCs count as Pentium-class?
Another client-side issue for schools - particularly primary
schools - is the space taken up by PCs and monitors, and the
problems of moving them each time the classroom is re-arranged
(not something they do so often in high schools).
We're looking at various thin client solutions, including laptops,
but would rather we could use regular recycled boxen :-/
Regards,
- Richard
--
Richard Smedley, rs@xxxxxxxxx
Technical Director, www.M6-IT.org
M6-IT CIC +44 (0)779 456 07 14
Sustainable Third Sector IT solutions. PRINCE2[TM] Project Management
Web services * Back-ups * Support * Training & Certification * E-Mail
M6-IT is a Community Interest Company, limited by guarantee.
Registered in England & Wales, Registration No: 6040154
11 St Marks Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY9 7DT
Northern Office: 4, Hollins Green, Bradwall, Cheshire, CW10 0LA.
Welsh office/Swyddfa Gogledd Cymru: e-mail / e-bost - cymru@xxxxxxxxx
Southern Office: Bristol contact matthew@xxxxxxxxx
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