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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Microsoft taking a page from Sun?

[sheldon]

Why do you think Java is all through out the University systems? Sun gave away class materials and set up Java Universities at various colleges to promote the language.

If you think it's less evil to use Java in a curriculuum you've got some serious morality problems.