[plug] Schools [taken] out today?

[Brian Tombleson]

> > All this is errelovant as Microsoft has done something even more
> > dispicable. Its provided a copy of all its office products, from Word to
> > Frontpage to Win XP, to Department of Education Schools at no charge to
> > the school.

> Are you sure that WA Ed Dept was given free licenses for all M$ Products?
Is
> this free for everything forever?

No, they have *not* given it free.

A couple of years ago (2? 3?) the WA EdDept paid something like $30mil for a
"blanket" license for MS the technology of the time.

Last year, the Qld EdDept paid $80mil for similar.

It means that every computer used i the EdDept can install anything from the
available suite as many times as they like providing it is within the
Education Department .. this also includes teacher's home machines.

Microsoft are not the despicable ones .. the EdDept decision makers are.

- Brian.