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Story: Microsoft licensing switch pleases Becta
Translated - Arrogant monopoly makes tiny, tiny concession... maybe
So, Microsoft will finally reduce the *TAX* on cash-strapped schools and 'allow' them to run Linux and MacOS on a few computers?
That's really big of them...
Please tell me in what other industry would this kind of thing be *allowed*, let alone be something that a government agency would actually make a fawning press release over? Look at BAA for instance, which has nowhere near the market power of Microsoft...
It is a scandal that an abusive monopoly has been allowed to take root in UK Schools, and the real question is how much tax payers money has been wasted on propping up this monopoly over the years. Just imagine what our education system could look like if the hundreds of millions had not been poured into paying the monopoly rent for so long.
Oh, and anyone here believe that this is anything other than the Microsoft spin machine trying to prevent wholesale adoption of Open Source in UK Education? Just like it is being adopted in schools throughout the rest of Europe?
Finally - a *pilot*? and *six months* into the future? sounds like someone is desperate for some positive press no matter how flimsy the vapourware they are peddling...
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