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Open Source Makes School Breakthrough

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Forthcoming government report to pave way for greater OSS use in UK schools Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, is set to release a new report which will say that schools could save significant sums by switching to open source software, eGov monitor can report.

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salparadise ·
Charlie Clarke (when he was Education Minister) proudly announced that he had tied the British Education system to a 9 year contract with Microsoft. Then, more recently, Microsoft and the Brit' Gov' announced a special deal whereby schools could get up to £65,000 to spend on IT, providing they spent it only on Microsoft products in the next 4 years.

And now this...

Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right is doing.



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