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Grant Sewell wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:11:48 +0000 > Paul Sutton wrote: > > >>>> One thing Becta was concerned about (see earlier post) was the >>>> licensing model(s) offered with M$ stuff. You actually have to pay >>>> M$ licenses for other (non M$) machines on the network. So giving >>>> them a box configured with Linux get M$ money!!! >>>> Great 'work' if you can get it! >>>> Tom te tom te tom >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> Given mac hardware can now run Windows, if a school bought macs and >> OSX, how do they stand with MS licencing, surely Microsoft won't >> expect em to buy windows licences, for macs. (well office I can >> understand) It would not surprise me, >> >> >> Paul >> > > I would hope that since you can't install Windows "natively" that you > would not come under this problem if you had Macs. > > (It is my belief, although I could be wrong on this, that you still > need Mac's bootloader thingy since plain WinXP and WinVista don't work > on EFI based x86 machines despite Microsoft having developed and > released Win2000 for EFI based Itaniums.) > > Let us hope this is the case. :) > > Grant. > > Cool, that could be one way of getting schools out of the mire they are in, switch to mac, would annoy microsoft big time, learn to play by the rules, the HARD way, in fact I think schools should get a few macs just to show there is another way. At least a mac can be dual booted to Linux (I think anyway). Paul -- Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- 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