Obtaining Linux-ready thin-clients

[Richard Seguin]

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Well if it's law I know plenty of schools breaking it ;)

Brian Burger wrote:
> 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
>
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