On Tuesday 22 April 2008 03:50 pm, Rony wrote:
That is what I had in mind too. But as JTD mentioned, M$ comps come with that caveat.
In Britain, some schools were given specially discounted M$ software that had an open license which covered all their PCs irrespective of whether they had Doze on them. So even when they purchased new PCs, they had to pay M$ for that machine too even if they did not use Doze on it. Out of frustration they started looking out for full Libre solutions.
In this case however, if the schools knocked off Doze from M$ donated machines then what would the penalty be? Would M$ take back the machines or ask the schools to pay a fine? That would be interesting to see, once the media got wind of this.
In any case the M$ $oftware offered to schools is crippled (no M$office, no media player etc.). If you want all of the bloatware u pay fat money.