____/ High Plains Thumper on Thursday 08 May 2008 17:39 : \____
> http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7386/469
>
> > EU: Schools increase use of Open Source Open Source News - 26
> > February 2008 - EU and Europe-wide - General
> >
> > [....]
> >
> > In Macedonia, a 180.000 PCs running the GNU/Linux distribution
> > Ubuntu are being deployed in schools across the country. In
> > Turkey all students aged 11 and 12 will find Open Source on
> > their schools PCs as an option next to Microsoft Windows. And
> > in Russia, the government last year decided to migrate all
> > schools to GNU/Linux, a move that should be completed by 2009.
>
> LOLROTF! Bomp, bomp, bomp, another 180,000 Microsoft licenses
> bite the dust!
Think large.
Deploying KDE to 52 million young people
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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
| fully deployed and in active use.
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| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
| serving some 52,000,000 students.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
Now, that's nothing to sneeze at.
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