Perhaps we should all be writing to our MPs and MEPs as individuals promoting the virtues of Open Source in education? If anyone who is a skilled writer could put such a letter on the web then I would happily download, modify and send a copy, and give it a little publicity. I understand that supportive decisions at this kind of level have been made by other EEC countries (France?). On the subject of campaigns, there is an online petition regarding the plan for European adoption of the US-type software patent laws which would also have an effect on education: More details at: http://www.freepatents.org/ http://www.eurolinux.org/ with the online petition at http://petition.eurolinux.org Hope this isn't OT, but SuSE do sponsor the Eurolinux Alliance! Regards, Clive. On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, you wrote: <snip>
given Becta's independent role. Also concerns were expressed by leading education IT companies (you can guess) that it was not within Becta's remit to promote an Operating System over any other (sic).