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Rob Beard wrote: > 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 > > s/interesting/painful -- 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