On Tuesday 08 Apr 2003 8:51 am, ian wrote: [snip]
3. We need some focussed lobbying and political strategy. I currently have the OFT investigating MS schools agreement and I have enlisted an MP and former minister to help reinforce the case. While MS schools agreement requires every Pentium to pay annual licenses to MS whether or not it runs any MS software its going to be difficult to add some extra low cost Linux thin clients to a network in a school operating schools agreement.
How many people have really looked into this issue of licensing *every* pentium PC? When we were looking at the beginning of this year to upgrade our group to XP we questioned this as we have a number of Linux PC's - PC's that were going to stay Linux. We too were originally told that we would have to license these too. When we pointed out that this would be a show-stopper they said that they'd look into it. After our suppliers checked internally and (I think) with MS, we were told that we would only have to license the PC's running a MS O/S (including a freshly installed WFW3.11 system). I just wanted to throw this into the pot to get people's opinions, partly because we still haven't signed up for anything yet and would appreciate other people's experiences and opinions.
Ok there are other things but 3 is enough for the time being!
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