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Ditching Microsoft Could Save Education Millions
ElvenMonkey writes "The Times Education Supplement has published the results of a BECTA (British Educational Communications and Technology Association, the Government's ICT agency) study, to be published next week, into the TCO of using Microsoft products compared to using Open Source products. The report shows an average saving of 24% per computer in schools using Open Source over those using Microsoft systems. Now if only the government wasn't insistent on locking schools into using Microsoft in arguably illegal ways."
You mean our schools might actually promote learning, sharing, innovation, and playing nice with others? Say it ain't so!
It's amazing to me how rarely we see "academic" software like Unix & Linux in our schools. I'm fortunate enough to be assisting in setting up a private school's computer network, all Linux, baby!
I pity the foo that isn't metasyntactic
The Register is such a timesaver for Slashdotters...it has the anti-M$ slant built in.
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yeah, no joke.. get rid of the computers and learn the hard way! I was raised without computers until late in highschool, and look at me! I mean, I am single, a musician.. alcoholic.. addicted to porn and constantly refreshing slashd..
nevermind.. keep the computers.
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
yeah, no joke.. get rid of the computers and learn the hard way! I was raised without computers until late in highschool, and look at me! I mean, I am single, a musician.. alcoholic.. addicted to porn and constantly refreshing slashd..
At least it paid off in your grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation skills.