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Story: Schools face software licensing clampdown
Posted by: Brian Leach (Tuesday 4 July 2006, 3:08 PM)
"Software companies should supply their products Free to all Schools and collages, that way our students can evaluate and make up their own mind on the best products to use."
That worked for Oracle. If they hadn't made their Relational Database free to education establishments back in the early 70s, we wouldn't all be living now with the tyranny of the Codd/Date model being the only database model taught in higher education, despite there being far better alternatives.
My kids insist on using (a paid up copy of) MS Office at home simply because that is what their school uses. If more schools go to OpenOffice out of licence concerns, that's a whole tranch of parents who won't need to shell out for an MS product. Which may not be best news for those funding FAST.
Present toes. Bang. Ouch.
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Story: Schools face software licensing clampdown
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FAST is a PROFIT making business NOT an organisati... Anonymous -
Open Source companies DO supply their softwar... Anonymous -
FAST is a PROFIT making business NOT an organisati... Anonymous
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"Software companies should supply their produ... Brian Leach -
Ten years jail sentence? I just checked the statis... Nick Stevens
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This is exactly why schools in Portland, Oregon (U... Sum Yung Gai
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The motto of business is, was, and always will be:... Anonymous
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Very good. The more the public gets to know about... Arthur B.
