[Wolves] BBC Technology poll - vote now :-)

Richard Smedley smedley358 at btinternet.com
Sun Oct 28 19:21:24 GMT 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 21:11 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> The point about £500 pa was a comment on the "just pay a fixed fee per 
> PC, irrespective of which MS software you load on it" licencing model. 
> I'm not saying that this model is best, only that I _don't_ find it 
> particularly morally reprehensible as an option.

Hmm, I think in most walks of life this would be known
as a protection racket :-/

The schools licence was before the Office of Fair Trading 
a couple of years ago, but the action was dropped for lack 
of schools to back the complaint, despite an otherwise 
excellent case.

 - Richard












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