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____/ Mark Kent on Friday 15 Jan 2010 11:28 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 14 Jan 2010 13:21 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>> Government Plugs Microsoft With Online Training Course
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>>>>| The government is promoting Microsoft's
>>>>| proprietary software as part of a plan to get
>>>>| more UK adults online, despite arguing for
>>>>| greater adoption of open source in the past
>>>>|
>>>>| [...]
>>>>|
>>>>| Some open source supporters may object to
>>>>| elements of the new scheme however as, although
>>>>| the Online Basics course is supposed to be an
>>>>| independent education project, the site contains
>>>>| a link to Microsoft's own learning network â
>>>>| Microsoft Digital Literacy â which includes
>>>>| guidance on how to use Microsoft products. In
>>>>| February 2009, the UK government said it
>>>>| intended to use open source to save Â600 million
>>>>| a year and published guidelines the that effect
>>>>| but, despite this, the UK lags badly at open
>>>>| source, using it less than countries like Mali,
>>>>| open source activists said at a meeting in
>>>>| September.
>>>> `----
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>>>> http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/government-plugs-microsoft-with-online-training-course-2995
>>>>
>>>> Home Access programme goes national
>>>>
>>>> http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2255981/home-access-programme-goes
>>>>
>>>> Will there be Free software?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The problem here is that those folk in HMG making these decisions have
>>> so little technical knowledge that they are readily bamboozled by
>>> salespeople from Microsoft and elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Sadly, here, the money involved helps to maintain the corruption.
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>> It turns out now that Microsoft is involved here (and BECTA of course).
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>
> BECTA are completely corrupt and should be shut-down. Why on earth are
> they so keen to push old technology onto kids in schools? Kids should
> be taught about the technology future; Windows would be suitable for a
> history lesson, but not a technology lesson.
There use sound bites like "real world" and "job skills", which to them means Microsoft Office.
They should pay attention to how giants like Google are working.
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