On 18/01/07, Neil Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I agree heartily with all of your points, I think there might be > a flaw with this one... > I seem to remember (and I could be incorrect on this) that at least > some schools have licensing deals with Microsoft where the school > purchases Office and the licence applies to the home machines of the > students too. So the school can legally give out copies of MS Office > to its students. I was never offered MS Windows or MS Office by either my High School or College.
My University did pay a fee to Microsoft so we can get Windows XP free, but NOT MS Office. I also suspect there are indeed restrictions. For the MSDN Academic Alliance (which can only cover certain subjects) some of those restrictions include: Not allowing other people to use the system (that includes family) unless they are a member of MSDN-AA Only being allowed to use it for academic or non-commercial work and some of my favourites Only being allowed to use windows to use the other MSDN-AA tools Only being allowed to install it on machines that came with no operating system (so no upgrading OS) You can't use WinXP solely as a terminal accessing a UNIX telnet server You need to be enrolled in: Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths to get it as well. On another note: Anyone else think its ironic the E.U. publishes a report backing open source, and the PDF was generated on Windows? (according to evince: Acrobat Elements 7.0 (Windows) ) I wonder what the report was typed in? _ Andy -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
