Bid to push FOSS in Australian secondary schools

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 5, 2008 12:11 AM EDT
iTWire; By Sam Varghese
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The Australian Federal Government is currently caught in a bind over an election promise to supply public schools with one computer per secondary school child, with the cost of deployment now looking to be much beyond what was budgeted. Both software and running costs, mainly electricity bills, are to blame. At least one state, New South Wales, is seeking more money from the Federal Government to deploy the PCs. Another state, Victoria, has accepted that these additional costs will have to be borne from state funds.

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