School budgets cut, but what about making genuine savings with open source?
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From: Gordon on 9 Jul 2010 03:27 On 09/07/2010 07:02, Rex Ballard wrote: > On Jul 6, 4:21 pm, "Clogwog"<clog...(a)anon.eu> wrote: >> "Gordon"<gordonbpar...(a)yahoo.com> schreef in berichtnews:i0vtsn$one$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > And the conversation degenerates into little more than two 4th graders > shouting names at each other. What better way to kill interest in > what could have been a very interesting thread. > Sorry, just responding to clogwog's patronising name-calling. And yes it IS still an interesting thread. I maintain that certainly up till quite recently most schools have taught "point and click Microsoft". If you teach application PRINCIPLES rather than vendor-specific skills, then the pupils are far more likely to be able to use any application they come across reasonably proficiently right from the word "go". My wife is an area sales manager in the UK for one of the largest educational publishing companies in the world and yes, until recently all their software has been completely Windows orientated, but there are signs that they are now starting to take Linux-based applications seriously, which is GOOD NEWS as many schools are looking to reduce the huge cost of windows-based software and hardware. The other problem in the UK is that there are a small number of network providers in education, and certainly the largest of those (purely because they started first) are quite draconian as to what software is allowed on THEIR systems, and in many cases this is out of the individual school's hands as the network provider did a deal with the Local Education Authority (cough cough!) rather than the LEA allowing individual schools to choose who and what THEY thought best for THEIR school. So it gets horribly complicated.... -- Registered Linux User no 240308 Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 gordonATgbpcomputingDOTcoDOTuk to email me remove the obvious!
From: Gordon on 9 Jul 2010 03:38 On 09/07/2010 08:11, Chink Chonk wrote: > Look. > > Sensible use of money: > > Microsoft > > Waste of money: > > Linux > > AS IN - Sensible use of money: > http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/PR286735.aspx > > WASTING MONEY > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/10519139.stm > > Those with mental health issues have been put in charge of giving money > out - and you thought Gordon Brown was an arsehole! > > > Very true both of those - but what have those got to do with COMPUTING in schools? -- Registered Linux User no 240308 Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 gordonATgbpcomputingDOTcoDOTuk to email me remove the obvious!
From: 7 on 9 Jul 2010 13:32 swiders2 wrote: > On Jul 5, 3:22 pm, 7 <website_has_em...(a)www.enemygadgets.com> wrote: >> School budgets cut, but what about making genuine savings with open >> source? >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/05/school-building-progr... >> >> School budgets are being cut in UK, and probably across most of EU and >> America, so when are we going to see the widespread uptake of open >> source? >> >> It has lower cost and runs on lot lower hardware requirements. > > I'm working on a global effort that focuses specifically on this > issue. We are partnering with many other organizations with similar > efforts. http://www.geotf.org > > If you or anybody else is interested in getting involved, please let > us know http://www.geotf.org/contact You can use www.alibaba.com to locate hundreds of netbook and laptop vendors that ask less than $100 for working Linux computers.
From: Ian on 9 Jul 2010 15:43 On 8 July, 10:45, Chris Whelan <cawhe...(a)prejudicentlworld.com> wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:25:06 -0700, Ian wrote: > > I see Thunderbird 3 needs a minimum of 1GB RAM. > Where? Review of a pre-release in the register. > http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/system-requirements/ Now only 784MB essential, 1GB recommmended. Whoop de do. Remember the days when bloat was what you paid for? Ian
From: Hadron on 10 Jul 2010 06:18
Neil Ellwood <cral.elllwood2(a)btopenworld.com> writes: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:18:27 -0500, Rotten Apple wrote: > >> "Gordon" <gordonbparker(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:i0viui$fve$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>> On 05/07/2010 21:51, Clogwog wrote: >>> >>>> Children love Windows and want MSN, Hotmail, photoalbums on SkyDrive, >>>> Windows live! a.s.o., all free! >>> >>> And in school they are supposed to learn COMPUTING instead of social >>> networking sites, instant messaging and photograph sharing. Cretin. >> >> What school are you taking about? Grade school? High School? >> College? >> >> What's "COMPUTING?" Computing ballistic tables and/or cracking Nazi >> code? > > This is a UK group and we use UK terms here - you are using US terms > which mean nothing here. Before making such crass and ignorant remarks please check the newsgroups line. And who is "we"? Most IT departments in the UK are happy with US terms and its not genius level IQ needed to realise why. |