Tuesday, July 5th, 2005, 1:20 am
Open Source in Schools
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According to the BBC, Open Source begins to have its impact on schools in Britain.
In open source software (OSS), the underlying computer code is freely available so users can alter it and publish new versions, to benefit the community.
Leslie Fletcher, chair of governors at Parrs Wood High School in south Manchester and campaigns manager for the UK’s Unix and Open Systems User Group, offers a personal perspective on how schools can benefit.
Manchester made this courageous step, which came to my attention via the Manchester Linux Users Group. There was another recent and much more widespread initiative in Michigan.
