[Gllug] Voluntary work

[Sean Tohill]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:07:19AM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

[snip]
> > 
> > This is a strategy just ripe for MS to match and make themselves look
> > good.  All they have to do is "donate" their software to charities,
> > they get the lock-in they want and get to write off the "donation" as
> > a tax deduction.
> 
> MS already offer their software at hugely discounted prices to charities
> and educational establishments.  In these and other cases they recognise
> that it is more important for their software to be ubiquitous than
> expensive.
> 

here at the university of westminster our students can get a copy of
office, visual studio, xp etc for the price of the cd's and cost of
someone's time to make the copies. they get a genuine serial number and a
licence for as long as they are on a course here. 


sean

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