-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Becta, open source and education: Too little, too late? ,----[ Quote ] | Slow adoption of open source and free software in UK schools can be | attributed to the same kind of inertia that afflicts SMEs in the UK. It | arises from a fear of the unknown, misapprehensions of the capabilities of | the software, over-reliance on trusted suppliers
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Schools set to go open source ,----[ Quote ] | Officially sanctioned open source and free-to-use software could be in use | across the UK education system within months after government education | agency Becta issued a tender for a four-year framework agreement. | | Becta is looking for up to 10 software suppliers to participate in the
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 LTSP 5 - Making Thin Clients Phat ,----[ Quote ] | Getting started with thin clients is quite simple. LTSP version 5 is already | integrated into Fedora9, AltLinux, openSUSE-Edu, Debian, Ubuntu, and *almost* | into Gentoo. If you are using a different distro, just drop on over to | www.ltsp.org and pick up a copy to install yourself. `
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cutting computer costs: District saves with new technology ,----[ Quote ] | For instance, Carver estimates the district is saving $50,000 a year by using | free software such as OpenOffice.org, which has mostly replaced Microsoft | Office across all seven schools in the 5,200-student district. The district | is also installing the open-source
Open Source Government: Several notes on the Russian Free Software Development Concept ,----[ Quote ] | Russian Ministry on Information Technology and Communications published | recently a document entitled Concept of development and usage of Free | Software in the Russian Federation (Russian). It is a 29-page text, which is | by far the most detailed roadmap of government involvement in
