[plug] Schools [taken] out today?

[Adrian Woodley]

The Ed Dept had the Technology 2000 project, which was designed to put
more computers in schools. This funding finishes at the end of this year
and all schools are supposed to have a set ratio of computers to
students. This is probably the funding you're talking about.

As for the duration of the license, it is ending soon. All systems
installed before the final date will continue on the current license. No
doubt the Ed Dept will be suckered by MS again and renew the agreement
or put in place a similar one.

Tony can probably tell you more about this than I can as he's probably
read the docs. Plus, they don't tell us country schools anything :)

Adrian

On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:45, Mark Nold wrote:
> 
> Wow thats terrible that they provided it for free, what bastards...
> 
> I'm surprised though as from my (little) knowledge of WA Public Schools and
> IT they went through a process recently where they each had $x to go out and
> buy PC's _and_ software. They seemed to be individually responsible (as a
> school) for their own IT destiny. This sounded like a terrible waste as no
> shared support, no group purchasing, no commonality.
> 
> Are you sure that WA Ed Dept was given free licenses for all M$ Products? Is
> this free for everything forever?
> 
> 
> 
> mn
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Woodley [mailto:Adrian at Diskworld.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:56 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Schools [taken] out today?
> 
> 
> All this is errelovant as Microsoft has done something even more
> dispicable. Its provided a copy of all its office products, from Word to
> Frontpage to Win XP, to Department of Education Schools at no charge to
> the school. The result of this is that there is now a generation of
> students growing up using main MS products. Teachers are also given
> access to this, so they don't take the time to learn anything else. As a
> result, any new computer bought by a student will have MS crap installed
> because thats what they've been taught to use.
> 
> I think the opening for Open Office is to provide an office package for
> students who can't afford MS Office. MS is too dug in in the Ed Dept for
> it to be moved without an enormous effort. The entire system is based on
> WinNT4 - even EdNet.
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> Adrian
> 
> On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:26, Mark Saxon Sachsenfeld wrote:
> > Leon Brooks wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps this needs printing and distribution to your local schools:
> > >
> > It may be just in time Leon.
> > The IT at my partners school has declined to
> > install OpenOffice even on stand alone machines saying
> >
> > "It has unsigned drivers for w2k"
> >
> > I wonder who told him that?
> >
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> 
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