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On 01/11/2007, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's a bit more complex than that - BECTA is recomending that schools > > only get perpetual rather than yearly licenses and spend money to > > convert any yearly licenses to perpetual ones. > > > So If I take it if I took a Linux box into the school for demo purposes > and perhaps use by the children, they would still need to buy a windows > license for it either way, What about saving money on simply office > software, some schools seem to have done this already, as its not > always practical to use Linux on the desktop when there is specialist > software for use by primary children. They wouldn't need to buy an additional license, they will be paying for more computers than they have or have windows on via a campus-wide or similar license. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html