There are some links in the original to stories (like a teacher telling a student that giving someone else a linux disk is illegal..
i've had students run into situations where a professor insisted on Microsoft Office, and placed work in formats that could not be opened by any other application. It was needless, what the guy was doing could have been done with Adobe (in a different format).
What really irritates me is that vendors who are Microsoft Partners can't sell Linux distributions. While i'm not a lawyer, it seems to me that such prohibitions are a violation of the Anti-trust agreements that Microsoft had with the feds, and a violation of the agreement that Microsoft made with Novell.
Time for Microsoft to be held to the standard that everybody else is held to.