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Story: Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Posted by: Abe (Monday 9 May 2005, 5:07 PM)
To Martin Scholes: Please, stop spewing rubbish.
- How is it non-standard software if all applications are built on file format and protocol standards? Stop the nonesense. Free Open Source software are more standard than any thing else available from any company. Nonesense.
- At least the community support is far better than any support you pay and get from MS. Add to that support form IBM, Novell, Red Hat, HPQ, etc... You get best of support
- If you build your own, you are responsible. If you purchase from any of the companies list above, the will be more than happy to surnish support that is much better that MS support and for a cost lot less than what you MS for Windows support.
- Get you facts straight. Linux today needs no more knowledge about computers than Windows. As a matter of fact, it is much easier to install, support, and maintain than windows. It is just a matter of getting familiar with it. Doing that takes lot less time than keep resolving the problems anyone would constantly encounter with Windows. Wake up Lackey, Your job is safe, instead of writing articles about Windows, you can write articles about Linux & FOSS.
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we run only linux (xandros) at... george
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@ George
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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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*Please* can we have some balanced views and... Chris Nixon
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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.
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