-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Smedley wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:38 -0400, Robison, Jonathon (M.) wrote:
UK only????
Hello Jonathon,
Yes, sorry - it's the UK that needs the most help :( 1.5 billion Euros of Education IT spend puring into a black hole every year. :-/
I'm sure you already know this, but just in case, you should make sure that the lucky winner does not have a site license from Microsoft. I was rather disgusted to discover that one school to which I donated ~50 computers (saved from an international bank's skip) on which they were running Linux, resulted in Microsoft making at least 5k, and probably closer to 10k per year more in license fees. *vomit* The reason being that the school's site license was worded such that any pentium class or better machine incurs an additional license fee, regardless of whether it had any M$ software installed, or not, and that probably included paying the extra for the office suit that they also wouldn't be installing on those machines. It occurs to me that one possible way of avoiding that, and saving the planet at the same time, would be to produce ARM (or some other non-intel) based machines which would sidestep the pentium-or-better nonsense, and would save the country a few power stations if widely deployed. Cheers, Phil. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGkn3zYgOKS92bmRARAtgUAJkBmkEzVLm3Tmfbn9Ahhj2HZkPuEwCgoPdw CFReyw8PVAHds3MrpBqkSS8= =wdQL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org