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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.
Exactly. I am one of the software responsibles in my department at a large university of Sweden. We have 2 agreements with MS, one with Adobe, one with Apple, one with Symantec, one with Marratech, to chose from. And nobody obligates you to sign any of them. Hell, I know 2 departments that are 100% apple and one that is 100% solaris. My department is now using Microsoft Campus agreement and the prices are very human, actually (and not THAT scary like the Apple agreement, may I add, but that my friends is another story).
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
Exactly. WTF are we paying M$ for? Get with the program guys, Linux is FREE as in beer. Why pay for licenses you don't need? Yeah, the computer is a tool, it justs works, yada fucking yada. Here's the deal folks - these are computers for KIDS. Now, how many slashdotters have kids? I do, and if you did too you would know that they are very adaptable little creatures. Try teaching them a second language, they will run rings around you. Give em Ubuntu, in 6 months they will be able to use it better than Linus himself (well maybe not but you get the idea!!)Get em while they're young!!. Introduce Linux into the classroom and in 10 years at the outside M$ will be history.
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