At 04:39 -0500 on 01/08/02, R.A. Cantrell wrote: >on 8/1/02 12:47 AM, b e n w e l l s | headwerkx at >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> It happened here in Australia a few years ago; a charity organisation who >> reconditioned old "junk" PCs to give to children and schools who couldn't >> afford new year, and in turn gave job training to those were doing the >> reconditioning, were hammered hard my Micro$haft Australia because the >> copies of Windows 3.1 were exactly that, copies. So they wanted this charity >> organisation, run with virtually no money at all, who was doing a great >> service to the community at the same time saving heaps of PC junk from >> landfill (and computer waste is nasty for mother earth), to pay something >> like AUD$200 per licence for each machine! >This story just doesn't ring true. Microsoft make their newest software >available cheap for schools ( As a student I bought new, licensed, XP and >Office for $6 each)
Your school may have a site licence deal. The charity thing is true; Microsoft offered them a "deal" of buying "amnesty" Windoze 2000 licences - which wouldn't even RUN on their machines, because the newest ones were mostly 486s and Pentium Is with less than 32MB RAM - for, like Ben said, about US$125 each. -- the pickle FAQ <http://macfaq.org/index.shtml> Software Archive <ftp://download:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//Users/thepickl/Sites/Archive/> <http://www.members.jmug.org/%7Ethepickl/archive/> _________________________________________________________________ -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
