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Re: [LUG] NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate

 

Quoting Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>:

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The intersting bit to me is that the NZ Govt have to pay Microsoft
whether they use MS or not... Someone somewhere has a *lot* of lobbying
power in the NZ govt....

Yep, didn't Microsoft try to get away with that over here, saying that any computer in the school required a licence, until I think Becta actually put their foot down and made it only apply to computers running Windows that were capable of actually running the software?

Rob





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