Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Open source providers included in £80M UK education tender
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>>> | Becta has included several open source providers in the bidding for a
>>> | £80M contract to supply software licences to the education sector.
>>> | Novell, LinuxIT and Sirius Corporation are among those believed to be in
>>> | the running. This is the first time that Becta has broadened its
>>> | potential supplier list to include suppliers of open source software.
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>>> http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open
>> Open-source-providers-included-in-Lb80M-UK-education-tender--/news/111317
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>> In short, there was never a reason to exclude them in the first
>> place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>
>> So how many other government departments and local councils in UK and EU
>> draped in illegal anti-Linux subversive activities? The topic needs to be
>> investigated and exposed by the FOSS companies themselves with a big
>> public shame list for all to see.
>
> You'd probably need to grease up (bribe) some politicians to have them care
> about this in the first place. Welcome to {Democracy Crisis}^1.
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> [1] http://lessig.org/blog/2008/07/netroots_nation_keynote.html
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It's commonplace. Apparently, you cannot do an OU maths degree without
paying Bill Gates for the privilege, as you need to run something called
"mathcad", I think. What's almost worse is that the OU themselves came
up with some collaboration software for their language courses and,
guess what? It's Windows only.
Looks like you need to pay a Bill Gates tax to get an OU degree in
modern language, too...
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