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

[tom poe <tompoe@renonevada.net>]

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 07:53, Sydney Weidman wrote:
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> Here is a direct quote from the Microsoft School Agreement 3.0:
>
> <QUOTE>
>
> Counting Eligible PCs
>
> School Agreement requires an institution-wide commitment. To that end,
> you must include all of the eligible PCs in the participating school(s)
> or district. Elibible PCs include all of the Pentium machines, Power
> Macs, iMacs or better. You must also include any number of 486 machines
> or below and any Apple, UNIX, or Windows Terminals on which any of the
> software will be run.
>
> For example, a school with 500 Pentiums, 200 iMacs, 200 386 machines and
> 200 Windows Terminals must include all 700 of their Pentiums and iMacs.
> They must then add the older machines on which they will run the School
> Agreement software. If they choose to include 100 of their 386 machies
> and 50 of their Windows Terminals, they would calculate the total number
> of eligible PCs as follows:
>
> 700 Pentiums and iMacs + 150 (386 and Windows Terminal machines) = 850
> Eligible PCs.
>
> </QUOTE>
>
> Just for accuracy in reporting.

Hi:  Did we already do the rant thing about M$ having records at their end, 
and registration should be recorded for much of the software, when it was 
purchased?  What seems to be the Standard Operating Procedure [SOP], is that 
if the purchaser doesn't produce proper documentation at their end, they pay. 
 M$ does not cough up their records to compare.  In other words, we have a 
company engaged in something other than an "audit" per se, IMHO.
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
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