Roadblocks to Linux in Education

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) has lashed out at government schools and education departments for snubbing FOSS. In this column, OSIA says it has been trying for over two years to make headway with these government agencies but 'they tell me that they are scared of doing anything which will upset Microsoft.'" From the article: "If these departments suddenly stopped paying for proprietary software and switched to FOSS, the schools know they won't reap any of the purported savings. So, why would schools bother with trialling FOSS? Where's the incentive?"

Comments

Re:The Problem is Insufficient Federalism

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid, pal.

Re:what are those idiots in the schools smoking?

[mrchaotica]

Unfortunatly it's ingrained in our culture.

I wonder if that could be a consequence of having been founded by criminals? Institutionalization can really screw up people's self-confidence...

[note: this is not intended to be flamebait]

Re:what are those idiots in the schools smoking?

[timmarhy]

"I wonder if that could be a consequence of having been founded by criminals? Institutionalization can really screw up people's self-confidence..." your an idiot american arent you your ignorance astounds me. really it does.i'm ALMOST too shocked to respond. firstly, australia is made up of many many groups, largly immigrants. australia was not "founded" what ever the fuck that means anyway, by criminals. even if most people who came to australia 200 years ago were convicts, it certainly has zero bearing on australia today. your post is stupid, ignorant and obviously flame bait.