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Crappy economy = great time for open source in schools
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| Not only is it budget time for me right now as we put together our FY10
| plans, but it’s also time to figure out how we’re going to make it through
| the rest of FY09. Since so many people have lost jobs and/or homes recently,
| the state and town just aren’t getting the tax revenues for which they’ve
| budgeted, meaning that we’ve been asked to find ways to cut as much as 10%
| from this year’s budget.
|
| [...]
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| How about those Vista upgrades? If XP is headed out in your organization for
| whatever reason, now is the time to consider Linux. Before the flames begin
| in earnest, I completely understand that there are places where Linux still
| can’t work and possibly even places where a Vista upgrade may be justified.
| However, if user requirements can be met with free software instead of
| software carrying a licensing cost, we’d be remiss if we didn’t at least give
| it a second thought.
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http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1967
Days ago:
Vladivostok Gives Free GNU/Linux Netbooks
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| I've written before about the increasing uptake of, and innovation around,
| free software in Russia. Here's another fascinating experiment, involving the
| Vladivostok State University of Economics and Services, which is giving
| students netbooks running the Mandriva distro...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/11/vladivostok-gives-free-gnulinux.html
Xavier School Deploys 600 Ubuntu Linux Desktops
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| Xavier is the latest K-12 school to move Ubuntu Linux to the head of the
| class. In fact, the school has deployed more than 600 Ubuntu desktops,
| according to Pierre Tagle, Xavier’s consulting IT director. During a recent
| email exchange with WorksWithU, Tagle described why the San Juan,
| Phillipines-based school has fallen for Ubuntu.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2008/11/25/xavier-school-deploys-600-ubuntu-linux-desktops/
Recent:
All Russian Schools to Use Free Software
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| I've often lamented how few schools in the UK use free software, and how
| difficult it is to break the lock that Microsoft has on the entire
| educational system. The pathetic state here is highlighted by contrast with
| Russia, which is making amazing strides in rolling out open source to
| schools.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1423&blogid=14
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