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Re: [LUG] OT: UK schools advised to avoid Microsoft

 

On 01/11/2007, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It's a bit more complex than that - BECTA is recomending that schools
> > only get perpetual rather than yearly licenses and spend money to
> > convert any yearly licenses to perpetual ones.
> >
> So If I take it if I took a Linux box into the school for demo purposes
> and perhaps use by the children,  they would still need to buy a windows
> license for it either way,   What about saving money on simply office
> software,   some schools seem to have done this already,  as its not
> always practical to use Linux on the desktop when there is specialist
> software for use by primary children.

They wouldn't need to buy an additional license, they will be paying
for more computers than they have or have windows on via a campus-wide
or similar license.

A.

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