Re: [Sheflug] Linux in Schools

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 April 2002 12:14 am, you wrote:
> 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 ?

Within the context of the document, they are correct. However, there is no 
legal requirement that you _use_ the software, just that the licence is 
non-transferable. A point deliberately obfuscated by this page, but a point 
none the less. This could be construed, with the right spin, that Microsoft 
licensing is so restrictive it governs which _particular hardware_ it can run 
on, not just who can use it.

But of course, we all knew that after the XP registration hoohaa.

Craig
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