UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal

rs232 sends in a BBC piece on the UK computer agency Becta advising schools against signing up for a Microsoft educational license because of alleged anti-competitive practices. "The problem was that Microsoft required schools to have licenses for every PC in a school that might use its software, whether they were actually doing so or running something else." We have discussed Becta's role in British education here several times as they have acted as a watchdog warning of perceived Microsoft excesses.

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[bigstrat2003]

It's ok, it was worth it. Someone has to call them out, and if I have to burn karma to do it, so be it. Downmodding because you disagree is cowardly, and hurts all of us by encouraging minority viewpoints not to speak up. I realistically can't hope to change these people's poor behavior by chastising them, but it does feel good to vent, so meh.