For Macs in schools it's death by a thousand cuts
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| "Defence Forces and Secret Service organisations throughout the world
| have embraced Macs because the Unix core gives them much greater
| inherent security and virus immunity. Yet if those in charge of the
| Department of Education & Training have their way Macintosh computers
| will disappear from Australian schools," he writes.
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| In Victoria the problems reported to him revolved around incompatible
| education software that was originally specified to cater for both PC and
| Mac notebooks, while in Queensland, some teachers were concerned about
| a perceived administrative pressure to get in more "boxes for the
| bucks".
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/for-macs-in-schools-its-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/2006/08/21/1156012466395.html
Offer them Linux. The Australian government is quickly picking up Linux...
and again you see the problems associated with lockins and incompatibilities
due to lack of standards in proprietary software.
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