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I have heard of this, but it applies to a MS license for some other countries where Linux is gaining populatrity. Surely MS must be losing money on thse deals which to me is a good thing, Then again why spend 6 UKP on a license then have to buy office on top when a free download will give you both Linux and office and thousnads of pounds worth of software. Thing is with MS there are usually strings attached limiting what software can be used, while this may force use of MS office over open office it also locks out much software that is good, incidently that sort of license agreement should in theory be illigal under competition rules surely As we have said before if we can get more people to use Open source, generally so go for openoffice.org rather than MS office esp if that copy of MS office is a illigal copy, But there is so much out there, it just needs us to market things, however I think we are getting there slowly, hopefully 2007 will be a good year for advocacy. Paul Tom Potts wrote: >On Saturday 18 November 2006 12:27, Greg Dash wrote: > > >>I know at my old school, and current college we used moodle, other >>than that it was all Windows and Windows Server 2003. So much of the >>tax payers money must go straight into MS's pockets its ridiculous. >> >> >I heard that some councils only pay £6 per desktop for winxp - its obvious >they bring the prices right down if there is an alternative. >Its hard to get this information as there are confidentiality clauses in these >contracts. Should be illegal for taxpayers money but then where would the >incentive for a bit of corruption come from if we had open government! >Tom te tom te tom > > > > -- http://www.zleap.net -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html