MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit

MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit

Posted by timothy on Monday April 22, @02:15PM
from the must-eat-more-money dept.
razvedchik writes: "As reported in this article in the Portland, OR newspaper, The Oregonian, Microsoft is pressuring 24 school districts in the northwest to agree to their Microsoft School Agreement licensing scheme or undergo an audit in 60 days. Multnomah ESD, which covers the greater Portland area and has around 25,000 computers, has to either decide to accept the license at about $500,000 or undergo the audit which it does not have time to prepare for. Of significant interest is the fact that a significant majority of these schools are experimenting with using Linux. Multnomah ESD has its own thin-client Linux distro called K12LTSP."  [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

5:15:56 PM