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Re: OpenSourceSchools Journal Online






On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001, David Bucknell wrote about "OpenSourceSchools Journal Online":
> > Many of you are interested in education, so I'm hoping you'll find this
> > of interest. OpenSourceSchools.org is a free
> > and open source online journal meant to foster the adoption and successful
> > use of free and open source solutions for education. Several of you were
> >...
> 
> A couple of days ago I read in a newspaper an article about the fact that
> many schools (in Israel) get broken into and their computers stolen, especially
> during the summer when the schools are like ghost-towns.
> 
> Anyway, one education official was interviewed for the paper, and what suprised
> me the most was that he said that one of the worst things about your school's
> computers being stolen is that the insurance only covers hardware, not
> software, and they end up needing to get money to buy all the software again!
> One would assume that software companies would simply allow you to reinstall
> the same software on replacement computers (the installation CDs can be kept
> in a seperate safe place), without paying again - but apparently they refuse
> to allow that!

This has nothing to do with the software companies. A software company has
no problem witha register user reinstalling without paying for another
license. 
It's the "technicians" installing it who provide the mis-information, and
the customer not understanding that they are paying for a license to use
the software rather than for transfer of ownership of anything.

Thanks,
Uri
http://translation.israel.net

> 
> Yet another reason why schools should use free software...
> 
> Offtopic P.S. It's a similar scam to what our country is running with car
> theft. The very high taxes on cars in Israel are probably justfied, for various
> reasons (cost of building roads, cost of traffic police, cost of polution,
> etc.), but why when your car is stolen are you forced to pay these taxes
> again when you buy a new car?? This "scam" is even worse than the software
> thing, because it gives the government an incentive to let more cars get
> stolen and not do anything about this problem; If any of you ever had your
> car stolen and you contacted the police, you'd know what I mean: they don't
> lift a finger even if you have eyewitnesses who saw the thief and the car
> they came in, even if the thieves just escaped a minute before, and even if
> you found fingerprints of the thiefs. [and I'm not talking about the last
> year when the police arguably had an excuse for being busy in more urgent
> things than catching thieves].
> 
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