Re: [PLUG] Interesting thread on SEUL-EDU mailing list...

[Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:25:06AM -0400, Noah silva wrote:
> > I don't see why a school would go along with this though, I don't see that
> > MS has any power to force an audit, and even if they did, what does the
> > school have to hide?  Even if they have some unlicensed copies, it would
> > still be less than the total number of computers if they are using other
> > OSs elsewhere.
> 
> Sure, but it gets complicated.
>   
> Are students' computers included (think boarding schools and
> colleges/universities)? What about ones that were bought through
> the school's academic discount?

Well I am assuming here that by "school", we didn't mean college, or we
would have said so.  If a school buys 100 copies of windows, then they can
only put it on 100 PCs, so if they don't include the home PCs in the
number they bought, then they can't put it on those machines.  Schools
giving away copies for home machines typically have a flat fee "campus
license" that allows them to reproduce the CDs themselves.
   
> What about computers owned (and paid for) by a student group (funded
> by a student activities fee, usually NOT technically part of tuition),
> which are (in my experience) the most likely to be computers capable
> of running windows (by which I suppose they mean IA32-based boxes)
> but actually running some other OS?

Yeah that powermac can wun WindowsNT PPC 3.5... but seriously, again if
those computers are "capable" of running windows, but DON'T, then the
school wouldn't have bought a license for them, so they wouldn't be in
violation.  If they did install a copy without buying it, then they are in
violation, and I suppose they deserve to get in trouble.

Again, I don't see why an audit has to be a big deal.  Either:
a.) tell them you don't feel like it and wait to see what they do.
b.) Counter-threaten them and tell them you won't be buying windows at all
anymore if they don't stop hassling you.
c.) Turn over your reciepts/contracts to show you paid for X number of
copies, and have someone count all of the computers and the number running
windows.  IF they really want to waste their time to verify it, they can.

 -- noah silva 

> > -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> 


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