Re: [PLUG] Microsoft Run High School?

[Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>]

Adam Turoff wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:10:20AM -0400, Chris Mann wrote:
>  
>
> > Given the history of MS's draconian EULA's, I would say that other OS's
> > would be verbotten. 
> >    
>
> Good.  I'd like to see them enforce it.  Do they sue the school district
> because a group of freshmen figured out how to install Linux on their
> PocketPCs?  Or do they sue a bunch of precocious 14 year olds?  Or do
> they pull out of the contract and look like sourpusses?
>  

If medical risks and experiments can be forced on a child with schools' 
blessings, why would you think something as trivial as software licenses 
can't or won't be enforced?

In my mind this could loosely parallel schools enforcing vaccinations.  
In NJ [for the good of all?] there is a new requirement for kids to get 
the Chicken Pox vaccination.  I disagree with this requirement and 
believe that it might backfire on my kid's health now or far into the 
future.  The choice has been taken from us.  The schools will force us 
to comply by not allowing the kid to attend school, than evetually they 
would take us to court.  With all the power and money of drug companies 
and the promise of government funding for enforcing vaccination 
requirements, we really don't have a chance.  The rights and health of 
individuals doesn't even seem to be a secondary concern.



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