Not true. In fact Acorn paid the BBC a commission on every machine sold for use of the logo.
And the RM infrastructure was just as shitty as their hardware. If people were desperate for PC compatible, why was everything on the Nimbus non-standard? They even used the 80186 that no-one else did and you had to emulate an 8086 on it to run any third party software!
Which bit is not true? It's certainly true that the UK government subsidized the cost of computers in schools, and Acorn got the largest benefit from that scheme.
> In fact Acorn paid the BBC a commission on every machine sold for use of the logo.
Citation? How did it compare with the UK government paying half the cost of a BBC B?
The 80186-based Nimbus wasn't PC standard and wasn't particularly good (yes, I did use one), but RM did move to standard PCs.
> And the RM infrastructure was just as shitty as their hardware.
And the RM infrastructure was just as shitty as their hardware. If people were desperate for PC compatible, why was everything on the Nimbus non-standard? They even used the 80186 that no-one else did and you had to emulate an 8086 on it to run any third party software!