Re: [seul-edu] MS targeting schools for software audits...

[Dan Kolb <dankolb@ox.compsoc.net>]

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On Monday 22 Apr 2002 19:11 pm, Paul Nelson wrote:
> The 24 largest school districts in Oregon and Washington are being
> audited my the Microsoft marketing department for license compliance.
> Along with the letter from MS came an invitation to lease software from
> MS as part of a school agreement that requires MS licenses for every
> Pentium and PPC computer, even those running Linux or Mac OS.

Who signs such agreements? Surely you should only pay for the number of MS 
licences you use/have? If a company had, say, 200 computers all running Linux 
(no MS software), and Microsoft decided to audit them, there's absolutely 
nothing they could do about said company not paying them any money for 
software.

I understand that it is in Microsoft's interest to ensure licence compliance, 
and I can't blame them for doing audits - they are, after all, looking after 
their own business interests. What I can't understand is what sort of person 
signs agreements that says that every computer *must* have a Microsoft 
licence, even if it doesn't have a Microsoft OS.

Dan
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