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Re: [News] Classrooms Migrate to Linux and Open Source Desktops

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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Education 2.0: The next evolution of school software has arrived 
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Within five years, Associate Superintendent for Technology and
>| Academic Services Jim Hirsch predicts, not a single desktop in
>| the 52,000-student school system in metropolitan Dallas will
>| carry the image of a proprietary school software program. Gonew
>| ill be the familiar Microsoft applications and desktop iconst
>| hat over the years have become synonymous with document creation,"
>| writes senior editor Corey Murray. 
> `----
> 
> http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6739

This really is a no-brainer.  It's one thing for school budgets to
benefit local communities with respect to a bit of economic
redistribution, but to benefit a foreign company, one which doesn't even
pay tax in the UK at all?  Nah, not smart.  

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a deal faster.
		-- The Duchess, "Through the Looking Glass"

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