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Re: [News] British Government Sabotages Open Source in Schools?

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> MPs criticise government roadblocks to Open Source adoption in schools
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | UK Members of Parliament have identified Department of Education and
> | Skills (DfES) and Becta policies as favouring proprietary software
> | vendors thereby blocking the adoption of Open Source software by schools
> | and colleges. An Early Day Motion tabled by Liberal Democrat MP John
> | Pugh, has called for a fair approach to ICT procurement in the
> | education sector.
> `----
> 
> http://sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=28349&hilite=
> 
> Some folks at the Manchester Linux Users Group have taken action to the
> Parliament a couple of days ago (related to the above, according to the
> mailing list). Open Source (and Linux) will come to schools sooner or
> later. It already prevails in some local schools and it proves to be
> rather successful.


I told you long time ago from the press release made by Becta
that their pro-open source sounding banter was a hideous lie.
They are game keeper and poacher at the same time and should
not be trusted for the press releases they make.



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