--- Terry Taylor
Are you telling us, therefore, that the exam boards are collaborating with Microsoft to shut out the competition? Furthermore, are you telling us that they are all doing this together? That would be a first!
There doesn't have to be collaboration - if the exam boards have written their exams, mark schemes or their syllabuses in such a way that either: * schools have to or feel they have to purchase MS software --------or--------- * pupils of schools using non-MS products are penalised then this is clearly anti-competitive behaviour. Whether it is illegal or not depends on the view of the lawyers! Example.... if a mark scheme in a GCSE paper only credits an MS function syntax is this anti-competitive? ===== rgds, Richard Rothwell -------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU and Wine are rirds. Rird is recursively defined. ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/