[FYI] Compulsory Windows: for Macs, and people without PCs?

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25179.html

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Compulsory Windows: for Macs, and people without PCs?  

By John Lettice  

Posted: 07/05/2002 at 13:08 GMT  

Microsoft has come up with another novel way to make its software 
compulsory - an annual subscription licensing system for schools 
where you have to pay for all of the computers you're using, even if 
you don't want them to run the Microsoft software you're licensing. 
This includes Macs, and although the Ts & Cs of the agreement don't 
make it entirely clear what you're supposed to do with the Windows 
upgrades you end up buying for these machines, we bet putting them on 
E-bay isn't a recommended option.  

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