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Linux Australia to fund research into licence compliance
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| Linux Australia, the umbrella organisation
| for Linux user groups in the country, has
| decided to provide funding for research to
| determine the applicability of the Trade
| Practices Act as a compliance tool.
|
| [...]
|
| Further, Scott pointed out, there were
| other difficulties involved in going to
| court over such licences in Australia -
| the copyright holders were, to large
| extent, from other countries. If a case
| was filed to try and enforce compliance,
| the copyright holder would have to be
| party to the case and hence present in
| Australia.
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http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/development/37379-linux-australia-to-fund-research-into-licence-compliance
Advantages of Combining Training with Outsourcing
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| Company B takes a completely different
| route. Recognizing that their Windows
| admins are not familiar with Linux and
| could use structured Linux training to
| help them achieve the goal, they first
| send two admins to an virtual training
| course for Nagios. In the classroom the
| two admins have practice servers that are
| available and a live instructor to ask
| questions and get ideas. The admins build
| and test Nagios in labs provided by the
| training company. At the same time, the
| company outsources the Nagios server
| install to the same company that trains
| the admins and within a month they have
| Nagios up and running and two fully
| trained admins to support the Nagios
| server. The training cost $395 each and
| the Nagios outsourcing cost the company
| $500. Total cost for training two admins,
| $2330. This assumes 8 hours of training
| for each of the administrators.
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http://spidertools.com/blog/linux-consulting/advantages-of-combining-training-with-outsourcing/
Recent:
Is BECTA for the Chop?
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| And the future for BECTA? Here is what the reportâs
| authors conclude:
|
| âAbolish the British Educational Communications and
| Technology Agency (BECTA). BECTA oversees IT
| procurement and technology strategy for schools in
| England and Wales. This has had negative
| consequences for many schools, precluding them from
| organising IT facilities and programmes as they see
| necessary. It hinders an open and competitive
| market, and if schools were to be allocated money
| directly, the sensible option would be to let them
| purchase the equipment that they required according
| to their needs. Abolishing BECTA would realise a
| saving of Â11 million.â
|
| It would be a controversial move, but I suspect not
| one regretted by the vast majority of teachers.
|
| Another plus would be that the gaping hole BECTAâs
| demise would create in the centre of the main hall
| at the BETT Show could be used to actually showcase
| real students (rather than bureaucrats) using
| technology as part of their leaning.
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http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/business-studies/comments/is-becta-for-the-chop/#When:19:25:00Z
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