Not enough open source in schools?
Hot on the heels of Becta finding in 2005 that using free software saves schools money, its bastard child, Open Source Schools, six years later publishes a paper describing how schools could to do more for less with FOSS.
Truth be told FOSS has made microscopic inroads into school ICT since Becta’s profound insight. We blame the usual suspects: FUD, biased Gov procurement , MSCE technical chauvinists, teachers, or the Open Source Community itself.
In business, the customer is always right even when they are wrong. Failure to sell is a failure to make others want to buy. It’s fun to bait the ICT support folk or raise bogeyman bearing FUD but it’s not their fault, I know that... and students don’t care either way... so why is it so hard to get high quality FOSS into schools when in contrast business really ‘gets it’ now.
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