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____/ bbgruff on Friday 02 Oct 2009 23:44 : \____
> nessuno wrote:
>
>> On Oct 2, 12:51 pm, bbgruff <bbgr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> > DK: Lyngby-TaarbÃk moves schools to OpenOffice
>>>
>>> > ,----[ Quote ]
>>> > | The administration of the Danish municipality of Lyngby-
>>> > | TaarbÃk is installing OpenOffice on some 1700 school
>>> > | desktop PCs, the administration announced yesterday.
>>> > `----
>>>
>>> >http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-lyngby-taarbek-moves-schools-to-openoffice
>>>
>>> "The Lyngby-TaarbÃk municipality needed to purchase six hundred new
>>> school PCs to replace outdated computers, explains Jens Kjellerup, head
>>> of the administration's IT department. By moving to open source, the
>>> municipality saved an amount equal to 25 percent of the amount needed for
>>> the new hardware. "Moving to open source paid for about 150 of these
>>> computers.""
>>>
>>> In fact (imo) it paid for much more than that. It "paid" for each
>>> student to have a copy at home of what was used at school, *without*
>>> pirating (stealing) it. It also saved the country on its balance of
>>> Payments. - and that's all only from the financial POV!
>>
>> Don't forget, it freed them of the requirement to keep proof of
>> purchase and documentation for all their software transactions, to
>> prove to Microsoft and the BSA that their software is not pirated. No
>> staff time need be spent on record keeping.
>>
>> Also, they didn't say this, but depending on how outdated the old
>> computers are, they may work fine with Linux (without having to
>> purchace new machines). One main reason people are upgrading hardware
>> is that Vista and Windows 7 are resource hogs and won't run on older
>> hardware.
The same is true when it comes to MSO07, I hear. And Microsoft does not
make older versions of MSO available. Intel must love this.
> That last paragraph is certainly true. However, I saw nothing in the
> article to suggest that they were using Linux? It's possible, but I
> thought they were referring mainly to OO.o?
> As the "Move to Vista" starts, your comment becomes even more valid, of
> course - there could be a lot of very servicable XP machines around which
> are still good for years with Linux, but simply not worth upgrading to
> Windows 7?
They still have their old Windows licences. When these 'expire', what will they do?
Edubuntu comes with OOo and Firefox preinstalled, which saves them time and
maintenance.
Denmark has some of its own Linux distros, e.g.
Polippix: The Political Linux Distribution of Denmark
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| From what I have been able to determine, PROSA, the Association of
| Computer Professionals, is the group responsible for its development
| and distribution. Their feelings on how privacy is being affected in
| the country of Denmark are rather obvious, and it looks as if they
| are not going to take these concerns lying down.
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