Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (303 mails)

[Colin McQueen <cmcqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

garry saddington <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 01 December 2003 21:10, Colin McQueen wrote:
> > "ICT Support Officer" <ict@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > The bottom line is anyone coming over from the dark side WILL
> > > > have to compromise or make a sacrifice to time in some areas.
> > > > The world WOULD be a better place but then people should be
> > > > allowed to choose. If they choose proprietary then so be it.
> > >
> > >  Just one little point here. At the end of the day, it is the tax
> >
> > payers
> >
> > > money that schools are putting to good use (or more appropriately;
> > > wasting). I am a tax payer and it shames me to find that thousands
> > > of pounds are wasted on Propriety products in schools. That is why
> > > UK is such an expensive country to live in. Do school governors
> > > think that this money grows on trees. It's your money and my money
> > > they deduct from our salaries.
> >
> > I see your point but I am not convinced that its a terrible waste of
> > money.  How does open source get created.  Where do these people get
> > the time?  The amount of money spent on software is minor comp[ared
> > to the salaries of the teachers.
> 
> Stop buying proprietary software and employ more teachers then?
> regards garry

If I stopped my school buying all proprietary software (including
ongoing licensing) we would save about enough to employ 0.75 of a newly
qualified teacher
> 
> >
> > -- Colin McQueen
> 


-- 
Colin McQueen