[Sheflug] Linux in Schools

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Those of us who do work in schools or who have an interest in schools 
might like to have a look at the following URL......

http://www.microsoft.com/education/?id=DonatedComputers

You might in fact notice the paragraph that is a bit further down the 
page which says....

"If you feel it is in the best interest of your school to accept the 
donated PCs, make sure that the hardware donation includes the 
original operating system software. Keeping the operating system with 
the PC is not just a great benefit - it is a legal requirement. "

A "legal requirement" within the terms laid down by the present 
Government is that due to the RIP bill and the data protection act 
you are not allowed any basic freedoms that are given to you by the 
GNU public licence.  I might be allowed to say that perhaps something 
may be wrong with something somewhere ?

The above page has already been removed by Microsoft and moved to 
another address.   If you cannot read the above document then I can 
explain that I have a PDF document of the very same web page.

Thanks



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Richard
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