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A Monocultural Alternative: TheOpenCD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the or-at-least-a-nicer-monoculture dept.

GooseLiverPate writes "Computers and Composition Online has an article by Dr. Paul Cesarini concerning the risks of a Microsoft monoculture in education. He describes the relation between Open Source and Microsoft as: "one of gnats swarming around a large, slow-moving beast." and emphasises the lack of innovation in Internet Explorer and MS-Office. He suggests TheOpenCD as a possible bridge for schools and universities to Open Source, and includes a review of the newly released version 1.2."

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  1. A similar offering by cos(0) · · Score: 4, Informative

    A software compilation to the OpenCD is the

    Open Source Software CD

    ...which is updated monthly with the latest versions of the most popular, high-quality open-source software out there.

    Anyone can download it via BitTorrent.

    Be sure to check it out.

  2. Here ya go... by Seraphim_72 · · Score: 5, Informative



    The pricing my school gets is obscene - I have made the pitch to the head of technology about open source - then he showed me in real dollars what we pay for the entire campus for MS products - think everything but servers for a 500 seat computer set up - $14000 a year. Oh, and we are looking into it, but it probably includes free student versions of VS.Net for any student enroled in a .net class.

    Here are a few links to get you started
    For programming stuff

    For OS agreements w/MS

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