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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. Re:The switch isn't that bad by Markus_UW · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your sig, is that Blow up Sun Microsystems? or the actual Sun?

  2. Re:The switch isn't that bad by Nf1nk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Both, or perhaps niether

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