"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> Am 17. Apr, 2002 schwätzte alandd@mindspring.com so:
> 
> > M$ is up to it's usual heavy handed tactics.
> >
> > Did you save your proofs of purchase for all your M$ products?  You better!
> >
> > Another reason for migrating to open source/free software.
> >
> > http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=669378
> 
> $7500 a computer for 5 year old software? That's insane.
> 
> They've got 11,000 PCs. It should be easy enough to change a few thousand of
> those to run Linux or *BSD.

I remember the jist of the story when M$ first audited them...

The new license forbids them to use any other computers or OS's;
effectively locking out a Linux migration.  This appeared to be part of
the "settlement" for not being sued.

  EBo --