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> Tom, > > The response I got from the school to my polite request to possibly > 'sponsoring' the cost of some OpenCD's to give out, or advertising the SFD > was: > > 'We are committed to becoming a business and enterprise Microsoft user. > We see no reason to promote the use of untested software that comes with > no warranty as to its suitability for use.' > > Whilst I personally consider the statement just a tad on the comical side > (e.g. the world renowned lack of fitness for purpose of a lot of > commercial products!) I fear that this is the brainless approach that we > will be up against. > > Schools get massively reduced rates on M$ products, and then spend masses > of cash on making them work on the rather tired hardware we use. Case in > point.. a network M$ Office 2007 installation on a Celeron 1.8Ghz 512Mb > Ram desktop took nearly 2 1/2 hours!. > > I hope it gets a better response from this from some of the ore > enlightened schools, but I for one, won't be holding my breath! > > Adam > > Don't the NYSE and pegeuot use Open source and Linux paul -- 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