[plug] Linux in school education

[Jacqueline McNally]

Senectus . wrote:
> There is an interesting article on slashdot at the moment how FOSS
> never gets any decent headway in Australian Public schools because
> they're scared of upsetting Microsoft.
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/13/2118247&tid=109&tid=146&tid=106
> 

You may wish to post the link to the BECTA report (UK) that was released 
yesterday, if it hasn't already:
http://www.tes.co.uk/2094985

"The association analysed costs at 33 schools which use paid-for
software, and compared them with 15 which have pioneered the use of
free programs, known as open source, and the pared-down hardware to run
them.

Average costs, including software, hardware and support costs, were 24
per cent less per computer in secondaries using open source."

and

http://slashdot.org/articles/05/05/06/133233.shtml?tid=146&tid=109

Regards
Jacqueline