Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Government still tech agnostic despite Vista concerns
>
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> | Becta, the organisation that implements government educational
> | technology policy, has claimed Windows Vista and Office 2007 should
> | not be deployed in schools because of potential compatibility
> | issues with earlier versions of Microsoft's software, as well as
> | software produced by Microsoft's rivals. This view was reiterated
> | on Wednesday in an update to a Becta report released late last
> | year.
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And yet...
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| However, speaking to ZDNet.co.uk at the BETT educational technology
| conference in London, schools minister Jim Knight said
| opportunities for learning existed with both open-source and
| proprietary software.
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| "I think it's important we don't close down the opportunities
| offered by both open-source and [proprietary] software," said
| Knight on Wednesday.
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"Opportunities"? With broken proprietary software that creates
incompatible documents? What "opportunities" are those, exactly?
Gah! When are these loony-bins going to wake up?
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
| make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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