[wplug] Re: .Net Launch

[Rick Harris]

You could ask.  However I believe Pitt (for example) has a site license 
agreement with Microsoft.  Essentially the copies of Windows, Office, etc. 
that they give their students to use are free.  They pay a fixed amount 
regardless of how many copies get installed, so there's no real incentive for 
them to offer an alternative.

In fact, they have a disincentive as any software they give away is software 
that their support people are going to have to deal with.  They'd rather have 
everybody on the same thing.

Of course I could be completely wrong, or they may be open to saving on the 
site license cost by moving over to Linux as the main OS.  (See previous 
argument over which distribution to suggest :-)

- Rick

On Wednesday 30 January 2002 20:34, you wrote:
> On the evangelism idea,
> and how to make the LUG and Linux better known,
> local universities (Pitt, say) have a week, at the
> start of the semester, where they give CDs to their
> students, loaded with Windows-based stuff. Microsoft
> OSs, office, etc, also some non-MS software.
> I wonder if Linux CDs could be distributed during
> those days.
>
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