On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:06 pm, David Bowles wrote:
Paul wrote...
...Leaving aside the issue we have discussed before that few of them have a legal copy of the software...
In one of the big secondary schools in which I did my teaching practice (a Technology College) the netadmin admitted to me they had purchased only 36 copies of MS-Office which they ran on well in excess of 200 PCs!
Is this sort of thing common within UK schools? ...I missed previous discussions on this topic.
My previous, previous school had quite a few unlicensed copies of Office rattling around the place. I was really talking about students at home though, they tell me quite openly that their dad (et al) got them a copy of XP office and OS from some a.n.other. With broadband and CDRW so cheap now it is on the increase. At my previous school I told the head that students in the school were copying and selling all sorts of software but she seemed disinterested.
David Bowles Paul