60 thousand Russian teachers to learn Linux by the end of 2009

Quoting:RUSSIA'S PLANS to run the open sauce operating system Linux have been thwarted by incompetence and the slippery actions of Microsoft.

The former communist state apparently had a cunning plan to use the free operating system in schools to save a ruble or two.

However according to the Russian press the chap in charge of the programme, Alexei Kuzovkin, believes that the program that supplies Linux to schools is in jeopardy.

He said that part of the problem is that the schools are not getting the cash to upgrade. From the beginning of the year funding for the project was pared down three times.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1562185/russian-lin...

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/free-software-for-...

Open sauce? OPEN SAUCE? What flavor of sauce is Linux anyway?

That's been a running gag at The Inquirer.

And there's one of the fanbois on Glyn Moody's blog, saying Linux has no maintenance costs. I think the Ubuntu video driver fiasco shows otherwise.

Quoting:What flavor of sauce is Linux anyway?

Power Sauce, of course!

Quoting: What flavor of sauce is Linux anyway?

Flame-roasted barbecue.

But definitely not "secret sauce."

Quoting:According to Business DK, the Rødovre municipality has kept its move to OpenOffice under wraps, fearing criticism from Microsoft. According to the news site, the company is trying to get fired a colleague of Roark in the municipality Lyngby-Taarbaek, Jens Kjellerup.

Lyngby-Taarbaek announced last month it is moving all of its schools desktops to OpenOffice. The municipality also plans to replace Microsoft's office tools by OpenOffice on all PCs used by the administration in March next year.

Microsoft in a public letter to the Mayor and citizens of Lyngby-Taarbaek on 2 November claims the move to OpenOffice makes the use of office tools more cumbersome for teachers, students and parents.

http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-rodovre-municipality-openoffice-w...

ED: On the LXer frontpage now...

Linus can be whatever flavour of sauce you prefer. It's awesome-sauce!

http://www.littlebigplanetoid.com/images/uploads/awesome_sau...

Right now I probably need hot sauce. It clears my sinuses and my allergies are bad today.

""A school does not buy a book on mathematics when it does not meet the educational requirements, just because it is cheaper""

the old comparing software to a book metaphor.

what educational requirement does office supposedly have that open office doesn't.

what a joke.

Quoting: the old comparing software to a book metaphor.

Notice they never do that when they want to patent software.