Re: [seul-edu] MS targeting schools for software audits...

[Jim Thomas <jthomas@bittware.com>]

paul melo wrote:
>
> On Monday 22 April 2002 11:11, you wrote:
>
> > Along with the letter from MS came an invitation to lease
software from
> > MS as part of a school agreement that requires MS licenses for
every
> > Pentium and PPC computer, even those running Linux or Mac OS.
>
> "......even those running Linux or Mac OS."
>
> Could someone explain this part to me?
> How could they say MS licenses be "required" if running Linux?
> Appears to be absurd.

In the mid 90's, we discovered that the president of our
home-owner's
association had been embezzling money from us.  We suggested to our
attourney that we were going to ask him to repay it, or we were
going to
the police.  Our attourney told us we'd better not, because "that's
extortion."

Can anyone explain how this is any different?

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