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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. How Schools Can Get Free Software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bit-Torrent?

    Oooooh you mean the other kind of free.

  2. Re:How Schools Can Get Cheap Software: by Alex+P+Keaton+in+da · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is a very, very real danger in students using free software- they may develop a crazy idea that information should be accesible to everyone, and reasonably priced and GASP even free!!!
    Next thing you know these crazy kids will be downloading free copies of Boy George hits, drinking excessive amounts of YooHoo, and having parties where more than 10 people watch a movie on DVD without paying royalties!!!!
    This needs to be stopped now! Ship windows! Ship windows!!!!!!! Why isn't Geldoff taking up this cause!

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    And All I Ask is a Tall Ship And a Star to Steer Her By
  3. Re:I for one, agree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, I can't tell you the horrible problems I had when I joined the work force, coming from my background of mostly Sinclair Spectrum and Amigas. I took me literally seconds to get to grips with Windows! That sort of hesitation nearly killed my career.

  4. Re:Dear Children by ettlz · · Score: 4, Funny
    Dear sch00l sys4dm1n d00dz...
    thnx 4 installing teh linux on the computaz! we iz LUVVIN it!!!

    just the otha day i woz finkin how totally 1337 it wud b 4 the skool 2 move 2 3 software. like cutin costs n shit! i sed to our Mynds, propriatary solushuns was not da way fowward, and that impartiality and freedum from corprut influnce in da edukashun system cood only be inshured throo open sours. yeh, that's wot gary the geek said anyway.

    yeh. and mynds wuz just sayin how good it woz to write up her gcse pole dansin coursework wiv LaTeX and not dat mingin Word shit!!! i fink she fancys gary coz he knows ALL DA TRIX! she said to me that she wood backslash his curly braces any time of da munf.

    i finks its GREAT that my kids gonna grow up in a world were software is free and it don't affect your benefits, and maybe they cood do the same 4 nappys coz my weekend job at teh off-licens^Hc^H^W booz r us pays shit and vodafone keep aksin me 2 pay 200 quid for those 4000 txts i sent. 2 ton? get out of heer!

    ur teh shit!!!!!
    sara xxxxx

    ps. sorry bout my speling and grammer and punctual^H^Hati^H^H^H^H^Hhuashun, teh inglish teeching is crap