Terry Porter wrote:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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UK schools chief begs for Home Access scheme cash
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| Schools minister Jim Knight, who was speaking at the opening of this
| year's Bett event at Olympia in London, said today that Microsoft has
| created something he described as a ?re-investment fund?. The software
| maker will ?commit to fund a foundation in support of the Home Access
| programme,? he said.
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| However, Knight didn?t reveal how much cash Microsoft was pumping into
| the initiative, which has been periodically wheeled out by the
| Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) for the past 12
| months, perhaps in part to help resuscitate Gordon Brown's premiership.
|
| [...]
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| However, this latest agreement with Microsoft to inject some money into
| the Home Access programme could ruffle some feathers, particularly among
| the open source community.
|
| The Microsoft-funded foundation will develop and implement a programme
| of training and support for teachers, parents, as well as to help
| create "awareness" for the Home Office programme, said Knight.
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Gack, this Microsoft methodology is *straight* out of Comes v/s Microsoft
emails that Doug M has been posting!
More lock-in by insinuation into our education system.
Fucking lovely.
I told my sons' secondary school when they started that under no
circumstances were they to be taught anything that required a home copy
of a restrictively-licensed software package. Their reply? "What do you
mean?" No: MSWindows, MSOffice, Frontpage extensions... or anything else
that starts the EULA with "This software is licensed, not sold"...
They weren't happy, and still aren't happy, that I refuse to fork over
money for software that not only do I end up not actually owning (hang
on, isn't that against the law?), it also signs over /my/ hardware and
/my/ data to Redmond. Ain't gonna happen.
What they're also not happy about is the fact that my sons' coursework
assignments are submitted in opendocument format (prior to odf becoming
an iso standard they were submitted in pdf). Well, boo-fucking-hoo! I'm
SOOOO SORRY that their insanely busy tech staff (busy with delousing
Wintendos) have to go the extra mile in downloading and installing a
free office package that pisses all over a certain very costly office
package and conforms to industry standard file formats to boot!
People should get with the times. Microsoft is a dinosaur and it's about
time that meteor came in and put Redmond out of all our miseries.
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