__/ [ William Poaster ] on Thursday 15 February 2007 15:05 \__
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:10:39 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 08 February 2007 17:52 \__
>>>
>>>> Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> "Schools in the Perm region will soon quit buying software from
>>>>> commercial companies"
>>>>>
>>>>> "According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed
>>>>> software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop
>>>>> apps"
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/02/07/linuxschool.shtml
>>>>
>>>> The bandwagon is getting awfully big.
>>>
>>> In reference to the "Perm region"?
>>>
>>>
>> I was thinking just how many locations around the planet are looking at
>> open-source, looking at Vista, doing a quick calculation, and then
>> declaring for open-source.
>
> I saw this in another (UK) newsgroup:-
> "We're on the Microsoft Schools' Agreement, and the licence _clearly_
> states that if the PC doesn't already have Windows on it, our licences are
> invalid.
> They make an exception for MacOS 9 and upwards (presumably so I can put
> Windows XP on an Intel Mac).
>
> "But ANY other operating system, or none[1], and although I _can_ install
> it (as in: the VLK works on a fresh install) I'm doing so against the
> terms of the contract between ourselves and Microsoft. The upshot is, on
> the Schools' Agreement at least, use a VLK on a new build with no prior
> OS[2] and you're unlicensed."
>
>
> [1] "".....any other operating system, or none.."
> [2] "..no prior OS"
> These would seem to mean that if there was no prior ~Windows~ OS, the VLK
> is invalid.
>
> In *other* words, the school would have had to originally buy PCs with
> ONLY M$ Windoze on, to use the VLK. If they'd bought some used machines
> with "any other OS (ie linux), or a barebones machine, or a
> self-constructed machine & installed Windoze with teh VLK, it would be
> null & void.
>
> So to ensure that the school ONLY bought PCs with windoze pre-installed,
> M$ wrote the VLK in such a way as to ensure that would happen & *lock*
> them in.
>
> I find that rather iniquitous.
>
> It would appear to me that the M$ VLK *deliberately* deters schools away
> from buying machines with any other OS. I've no doubt this happens in
> schools all over the world.
Microsoft's secret of 'success': exclusionary contracts, threats,
kickbacks...
Microsoft Shuts Down Linux 10 Years Ago Says Iowa Attorne
,----[ Quote ]
| Going back now to as early as 1998, Microsoft starts to realize that
| Linux might pose a possible threat, and Vinod Valloppillil, who is
| a program manager at Microsoft, is asked by Mr. Allchin, Jim Allchin,
| to analyze potential strategies for combatting open-source software,
| and specifically Linux.
| His memos are leaked to the press in April -- I beg your pardon --
| in October of 1998 and become known as the Halloween documents.
| And the evidence will be that Microsoft uses its influence in the
| OEM channel, the computer manufacture channel, to make sure that
| end users have a difficult time buying PCs with Linux preinstalled.
`----
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp/Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Linux_10_Years_Ago_Says_Iowa_Attorney
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