>> We had a college IT teacher in the >> hacklab once, he explained that even if he wants to teach some free >> software he can't, they are locked in a contract with microsoft by which >> they can not install any other software on the machines. > > Is that legal? I would have thought it was anti-competitive. Maybe > there can be another European law suit, anyone know what happened with > the last one btw?
MS used to offer very significant discounts to educational establishments, and NGO's (Essentially its almost free), I would guess that they could attach conditions to that 'discount' if they wanted and thereby get around the antitrust laws. BTW I am not suggesting that is WHAT they do, merely that they probably COULD. The European antitrust case is still running in part, I seem to recall that they were ordered to de-bundle some stuff (Was it media player?), and fined a shed load of money, but think they have several more shed loads of money (See Bug #1 - https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1) Alan -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
