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Re: [LUG] OT: "Bloody' Microsoft - extra bbc article

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7063716.stm
> on Microsoft in schools  
> points out the any machine that could run M$ has to be licensed -
> so you give em a linux machine and M$ gets paid for it.
> Tom te tom te tom

Just puzzles me how long it has taken Becta to notice this, it has been
going on for a quite a while. High school I went to and worked at were
signed up with the schools agreement, if I remember correctly it worked
out cheaper this way. It was a solely Microsoft institution though, much
to my disgust.

Chris

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