Re: [Fsfe-uk] UK tech specialist school pioneers open source switch

[Ian Lynch]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 13:46, Chris Croughton wrote:
> Spotted in TheRegister:
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/oss_school_switch/
> 
>   a Felixstowe school has taken advantage of the UK
>   government's Specialist Schools Initiative to implement a
>   switch to Open Source software as its chosen capital
>   project. Under the Initiative Orwell High School, which was
>   recently granted Specialist School for Technology status,
>   qualifies for a government capital grant of -L-100,000 and
>   -L-129 per pupil per year over four years.

I have literally dozens of specialist schools that have FLOSS aspects to
their specialist school plans. I don't believe any school could switch
to entirely FLOSS simply because there is software that they will need
to run for which there are no FLOSS replacements. Can't open tht elink
at the moment though!

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Ian Lynch <address@hidden>
ZMS Ltd