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Tom Potts wrote: > On Saturday 27 October 2007 18:17, tom wrote: >> Tom Potts wrote: >>> http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7063716.stm >>> on Microsoft in schools >>> points out the any machine that could run M$ has to be licensed - >>> so you give em a linux machine and M$ gets paid for it. >>> Tom te tom te tom >> I have to laugh (or is that cry ?) more than 5 years ago a small school >> in America said to Microsoft "I'm not signing that" and initiated the >> K12LTSP project ( "LTSP for schools). >> >> K12LTSP is now used in schools throughout the world (notably ones where >> legal ownership of MS products is out of reach). >> >> Why are we Brits so stupid, apathetic and lazy .... If Becta had got its >> Arse in gear 5 years ago we would have an open source culture in >> schools and start to see a more clued up workforce potential, no far >> better to let American companies tie us up with extortionate leagalise >> and kill our own innovative workforce stone dead...... > but you cant allow other countries to innovate in order to give the > illusion that US economics works - if we Brits were allowed to innovate then > we'd outstrip the US economy in weeks. Competition would destroy 'market > economics'. > The US have sent us all kinds of marketing and business management Gurus to > train us since WWII and now we have a management and entrepreneurial class > that couldn't shoot pork bellies in a barrel. Nice things like Quality > Management from Japan are taught by US Gurus and implemented by US taught > management teams and dont work here after that.... > > You get projects like K12LTSP because the US pushes its illusion of democracy > to a lower level - get people to argue over who runs their schools and who is > chief of police and let the big business run the rest of the country. > When, with the internet, small things can get surprisingly big this takes > certain 'democratic' models by surprise. > The internet is almost by nature an economically, politically and > scientifically disruptive force. > There are many other forces at large that realise this and think its in their > best interests to keep us in the computing dark ages. > Tom te tom te tom > >> Arrrgh ..... why do I bother......... > have THEY managed to disillusion another into innaction? > >> Tom. > > There is some hope... http://stephen-walder.blogspot.com/ I still think it's wrong though what Microsoft are saying with the licensing scheme. Does it cover just PCs or anything that is classed as a computer? Say an old BBC Micro if the school have any left in cupboards etc? That would be interesting seeing Vista boot on a BBC Micro. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html