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On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 21:14 +0100, james kilty wrote: > "If a school sets up a small network in its computer science department > running an open source operating system such as Linux, to ensure that > pupils have as wide a range of ICT skills as possible, it will have to > pay Microsoft annual licence fees for each of the Linux PCs in the > school." I know this adds nothing to the discussion, but why isn't this illegal? This implication is that if you go and find some old hardware, bring it into school (get it electrically tested :-) ) and then stick Linux on it, Microsoft deserves to get some money. Huh?? Dammit, it's Monday morning and now I'm in a really bad mood... Sophos Plc, The Pentagon, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, OX14 3YP, United Kingdom. Company Reg No 2096520. VAT Reg No GB 348 3873 20. -- 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