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Story: Schools face software licensing clampdown
Posted by: Sum Yung Gai (Wednesday 24 May 2006, 6:55 PM)
This is exactly why schools in Portland, Oregon (USA) moved to GNU/Linux and K12LTSP. They were directly threatened by Microsoft with an audit and a thinly veiled attempt to extort them into buying into "Software Assurance" and "Licensing 6.0". It made national news here in this country. After the schools started migrating, and after many angry phone calls to Microsoft HQ in Redmond, the company made the audit "optional" and "with no time limit."
http://www.k12ltsp.org/
The OpenOffice.org folks also have a solution to prevent those "criminal" educators from downloading proprietary software illegally.
http://why.openoffice.org/
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