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Schools In Portugal Moving To OSS

Posted by Soulskill on from the seize-the-opportunity dept.

New submitter thyristor pt writes "In light of massive national budget cuts, the Portuguese government will force public schools to move to free/open source software (Google translation of original in Portuguese). Schools with some 50,000 outdated computers won't see their software licenses renewed, the main reason being the cost of hardware upgrade inherent to mostly Microsoft software updates. Will the Euro debt crisis be a driving force to the spread of open source software?"

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  1. Re:Waiting for MS to underbid by Hadlock · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I can't tell if you're a deluded Unity developer, or a Microsoft shill trying to push popular opinion towards a truly terrible GUI to Keep the Linux Man Down.
     
    Unity is a fucking terrible interface, they took the dock interface from Apple, and forgot to put in any of the features that make it worthwhile. What a mess. What a waste of time, money and effort, and what a huge step backwards for Linux usability.

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    moox. for a new generation.