[plug] Microsoft's insidious domination in Australian schools

[Mr E_T]

On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:34, Senectus . wrote:
> On 5/4/06, Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
> >  Apparently, higher powers in head office dictate
> > that every computer located in any government school across the whole State
> > MUST run Microsoft - even if the hardware on which it runs is donated.
> 
> Gavin I'm pretty certain that this isn't true.
> My Father is a Deputy Head and I'm 99% sure he told me that they
> bought Apple Mac's for his school about 2 years ago.
> 
> I will follow this up for you from my end.
When My son started at schoool I pointedly asked the education department whether
I was going to be forced by them to use the hightly expensive winstuff.
I was assured that they were not going to force such an impass. And that other
software was supposedly acceptable.

Try talking directly to the education department themselves. Especialy point out that
Winstuff is extremely expensive for low income parents and that linux and other free
software is a good alternative.

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regs MR E_T
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