[plug] Schools [taken] out today?

[Jacqueline McNally]

Thanks for the article Leon. I will distribute the Salon article together 
with the following Slashdot story to the education lists I'm on. Microsoft 
has published a page which implies that replacing a copy of Windows on a 
computer donated to a school is illegal.

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/18/1623240.shtml?tid=109 and the
Microsoft page at http://www.microsoft.com/education/?id=DonatedComputers

Their statement that "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed 
operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine" is not 
part of any law of which I'm aware, except that I am not super familiar 
with the MS EULA.

Also, please do keep your comments coming about OpenOffice.org. The current 
641D is the precursor to what we hope will be Release 1.0. Feedback from 
prospective and current users is important to us. At the moment the 
OpenOffice.org community is in a flurry of activity with Release 1.0 and 
the preparations for OpenOffice.org at the Linuxworld Expo San Francisco in 
August.

All the best
Jacqueline
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/users/zenryaku/

Community Contact, Australia/New Zealand
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
(www.openoffice.org)

Are you a computer angel? (www.ca.asn.au)

At 09:08 AM 04/19/2002, Leon wrote:
>Perhaps this needs printing and distribution to your local schools:
>
>     http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/10/microsoft_school/
>
>OpenOffice works well, and doesn't suffer from the problems mentioned 
>therein.
>There will soon be a useable Mac version as well.
>
>Cheers; Leon