Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (303 mails)

[ian <ian.lynch2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:45, garry saddington 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?

£200m a year would employ quite a few more. There would also be a saving
in hardware and hardware upgrades which would probably be enough to fund
OS projects to keep things going.

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