Colleges Signing Secret MS License Agreements

David Gerard writes "As seen on Yale LawMeme: Microsoft is requiring colleges wanting cheap licenses to keep their license terms secret (e.g. Ohio State, University of Michigan) ... in direct contravention of state public records and Freedom of Information laws." Many FOI laws have loopholes permitting state agencies not to disclose information when it would harm business interests, so what the colleges and Microsoft are doing may not actually be illegal (or could be argued not to be, anyway), but it certainly is shady.

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heh

[Slashdotess]

in direct contravention of Someone's been using their word of the day calendar.

Re:I don't care

[dillon_rinker]

More succinctly:

"Me no care if thing evil or not if me get thing CHEAP!"

Re:I don't care

[MonTemplar]

if some shady agreement with MS puts Win2k in the labs and Visual Studio on my PC I got no problem with it.

Be careful at the graduation ceremony - I bet the Microserfs will be there waiting to assimilate you into the Collective... :)

Re:Yes, it's true

[MillionthMonkey]

A felon is someone who does something very bad and goes to jail for it and can no longer vote.

Bzzt, wrong. A felon is a black voter in Florida.

Software WORTH $1000?

[InfiniteWisdom]

it's nice to let students get $1,000+ worth of software for less than $200

Surely you mean software *costing* $1000, not software *worth* $1000