On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 15:34, Grainge, Derek wrote:
From conversations in the HMC_IT group, it's obvious that a largish number of schools have been asked.
The OFT need evidence and its rather ironic that it seems more difficult to get if the monopoly is complete. If a monopoly is so entrenched that no-one bothers even trying to compete with it, there is then no evidence that anyone is being blocked out. The number of desktop Linux users is fairly small and the majority of schools know little about it and certainly not enough to say we looked into it but decided that since we were on MSSA it wasn't worth it. How many even know the licensing regime they are on? I know it sounds silly but I have asked that question in several schools and no-one seems to know. Ok someone does but unless you get to the right person you aren't going to get a sensible answer. So after exhausting the focussed approach maybe they are now trying the statistical one. For a company like ours, its very difficult to give names of clients as witnesses because then all your customers get bombarded with OFT bureaucracy and say we wouldn't have had this if we chosen Windows!
-- Derek Grainge Microtechnology Wellington College 01344 444192 dgg@wellington-college.berks.sch.uk
-----Original Message----- From: Robb Bloomfield [mailto:rebloomfield@royallatin.bucks.sch.uk] Sent: 24 February 2004 14:33 To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: [Maybe Spam] [suse-linux-uk-schools] Office of Fair Trading
We had a letter from the OFT today, asking for details of our Microsoft licensing, our decisions for purchase, etc.
Looks like the campaign paid off then...
Any one else recieved them?
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