[ubuntu-uk] Opensource on BBC Technology

[Andy]

On 18/01/07, Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com> 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