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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Posted by: Jon (Sunday 15 January 2006, 1:02 PM)
To install software in schools that isnt used in industry for poltiical reasons would be criminal.
Schools should do just want the NHS did mention open source to Microsoft and then get Microsoft to drop costs. They managed to get a 1.3 million 10 year licence at a bargain rate by doing this.
School is no place for geekware
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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
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MS file formats are the landmine buried for the ki... Olavi Petri
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