Re: [PLUG] Microsoft Run High School?

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

emailme@dpagin.net wrote:
> All RedHat would have to do is donate a set a CDs and send out a RHCE to 
> do installs on the existing computers.
>
> (Oh, and fight a legal battle against M$.  One task is inexpensive and 
> easy compared to the other task. So, if M$ is going to cost a lot in 
> terms of money and trouble, we might as well get something in 
> return...Window$. What a clever strategy.)


I'm missing something here, just how can Microsoft actually legally ban 
the introduction of a second operating system on a computer a school 
system owns?  What putative rights are you assigning?  Admittedly if 
Microsoft owned the computers, it could ban the 2nd OS, but otherwise, 
it's on shaky ground indeed.  If MS wants to try banning the 
installation of a 2nd OS as part of its EULA, the easy solution is to 
install the other OS first.  I don't understand this fear of MS or its 
being pushed as the devil from Redmond.  It's a large corporation with 
all of the flaws that large corporations show.

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