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How Schools Can Get Free Software

Posted by Zonk on from the free-as-in-both dept.

RicJD writes "The BBC is reporting on a school in England which has found a way to save money through Open Source Software. It goes on to explain the idea behind OSS, and briefly how they've incorporated it into the school system. Could this be the way to show the UK government that savings can be had through OSS?" Likely an adoption spurred by the education report we reported on earlier this year.

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  1. Destroy All Muslims by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
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  2. Dear Children by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We have been informed that you can't install drivers, play games, get your sound to work, or really use your computer at all, additionally your complaints about the difficulties of the first graders to use the command line is very powerful...

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  3. Re:I for one, agree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    All schools could save hundreds of dollars by using Linux instead of Windows

    Hundreds of dollars! My god, their budget problems are solved!

    (Translation of the above for the humor- or arithmetic-impaired: say a very small school has a dozen employees. Multiply by a lower bound on the annual salary. Note that this is already something like 4 orders of magnitude more than "hundreds of dollars", and you haven't yet factored in benefits, administrative overhead, building costs, etc., etc., etc. In short, who cares? $1000 is lost in the noise...)