It would be useful to find that out actually. I am sure though that the ignorant accounts manager was just trying to discourage the use of other OSS. Regards M Gural -----Original Message----- From: ian [mailto:ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com] Sent: 06 December 2003 10:58 To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Research Machines Connect 3 On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 10:44, ICT Support Officer wrote:
An Accounts manager at RM or any other company is just that.. nothing more and they obviously don't want to lose business. The man(or woman) is obviously telling lies and probably have no technical expertise.
Had that been true what he says then the whole of Internet would collapse as you know Internet is full of different platform computers.
The only exception would be if they had deliberately built something into Connect 3 to prevent other machines safely connecting to the network. If there was no good reason for this I should think it would be illegal under the 1998 competition act and similar legislation in the EU. -- ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com