First Aid 2.0 for school, what to do with it on January 1st?

Question

Microsoft

I am the same teacher of computer science, not only to somehow live on the teacher's salary, I am listed as a school system administrator. It's no secret that after 11 days, the school software package (SUDDENLY) becomes "left". Power is silent.

Local dep. to swear that the MS line can be left (WinXP + Office), but you can’t sew words to the point.

Of course, from January 1 to January 10, no one will delete the software. I'll start on 01/11/2011.
I won’t leave about Abbyy, Adobe speech products - I’ll delete everything and everywhere at once. But…

Question: What would you advise MS? Total annihilation?
If it is necessary to hang up a “high-profile” case, will they take me or is it the director? Who from the legal side is responsible for the software. Will MS do raids? Maybe there are representatives of MS, who can comment?

PS: In my Ubuntu 10.10 class, I won’t cry - but aunties over 35 will cry ... they are already crying.

PPS: Holivara of the species - let the aunts retrain to * nix, please do not breed.

Answer 1

According to the law, they can say “What the hell did he put there” and take you.

Answer 2

If your budget allows, buy software. If not, welcome to FOSS. There is no alternative here.
In fact, aunts over 35 have few problems with Ubuntu, personal relationships are extremely important, although without them and on Windows they can arrange a hellish life for you.
Raids will be carried out. MS is out of business, the prosecutor's office will nightmare you. What will happen, for sure, the only question is "when".
The period of high-profile cases has passed, so in case of problems, do not hope to become a star, rather, the usual judicial routine will await you.
My advice to you is to buy some Linux licenses, something like altlinux. What would be a document that you bought something. Previously, InfraResource sold them very cheaply, but some information is no longer on their website.

Answer 3

Do not rush to delete, they will suddenly wake up on 11.01 and extend the licensing program.

Answer 4

My mother is also the only computer scientist at school and she is over 50.
With Linux Mint, Rosinka got along successfully without outside help, but I helped to set up and register that very Help.
By the way, Microsoft itself proposed a way out of this situation, and a year of license renewal (Venda) costs 256 rubles (in my opinion)
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Our school is wooden, if there is a fire, then for 10-20 minutes even in -30 frost and there is no school, but they forced fireproof doors to be installed between the “sections” (wings) of the school.
Put the school on guard (in the village for 2000)
Change the wiring (this can only be done by a company with a license and some other merits) for 600t.r.
and it's all at the expense of the school with 150 students

Answer 5

I’ll start from 01/11/2011 - didn’t you get a piece of paper that until December 15 everything should be demolished from first aid, and the first aid itself should be destroyed with a bunch of acts and other rubbish (I do this myself: I format hard drives and install Ubuntu 9.10-10.04, problems there wasn’t, even the pieces of iron were all wound up, the teachers sit and don’t seem to complain, at most out of habit they don’t know where to turn the sound on / off or there’s a button in OOo, but these are trifles)

Answer 6

A couple of years ago I was engaged in software licensing, though in a commercial company. I don’t think that anything has changed, but then it was like this:
If there is a system administrator (or IT director) on staff, then he is responsible for the software. So that users themselves do not install pirates is also his concern.
To check the appeal of MS is not required - ordinary police officers can drop in solely on their own initiative. Which they do from time to time.