Obtaining Linux-ready thin-clients

[Brian Burger]

On 10/26/07, Chris Powell <str8line at gmail.com> wrote:
> From experience of trying to work with a school and school board and
> promoting open source alternatives....there is one problem you may
> encounter.  All equipment inside a school becomes property of the school
> board, and all such equipment must meet their licensing agreements (meaning
> they need to run Windows, connect through the board servers etc.).

I've no idea if this is also true in Canada, but according to a BBC
article I just read, some of the agreements MS has with schools in the
UK require a Windows license for *every* computer in the school,
whether or not MS products are in use on that machine. The mind
boggles.

>From the article:
"But a spokesman for Becta said the problem was that Microsoft
required schools to have licences for every PC in a school that might
use its software, whether they were actually doing so or running
something else."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7063716.stm

Is this the case in Canadian schools too?

Brian
wirelizard.ca