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Story: Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 9 May 2005, 12:33 PM)
This is an excellent opportunity for open source, and should worry microsoft. If schools adopt the use of open source software, then students will leave schools with skills, not in ms office, but openoffice or staroffice. In addition, home pc's will use the open source software to remain 100% compatible with their coursework - and educating the parents in the process.
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Great. We'll have a generation of people taught to... Martin Scholes
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Martin,
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Thank you, annonymous.
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Martiin, I would agree that time co... Anonymous
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we run only linux (xandros) at... george
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@ George
George, you make some... Martin Scholes
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Learning a non-standard software? Sounds like... Steve Conners
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In Canada, the PEEL District shool board is or has... george
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I think everyone here is missing the point.
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*Please* can we have some balanced views and... Chris Nixon
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"Great. We'll have a generation of people taught t... Seb
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It has been suggested that schools could only use... Martin JD Green
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So little time and so much to do.
I often hear tha... Arthur B.
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Arthur, the environment in which I work is a... Martin Scholes
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