".. given to mothers of newly born babies!" (just spotted the gaff) <br>Time to read the kids another story ..<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roland Gesthuizen</b> <
<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Am I to be prevented me from supporting some of our very poor parents
when we support software solutions that save them money or allow them
to recycle an old computer?<br>
<br>Our Khmer students can only use Open Office. We have installed it on all our school computers and it happy works alongside all the other software. <br><br>Our sister school in Cambodia doesnt need charity discount software. It
needs money to clear mines. Letting them get on with using and
developing KhmerOS gives them this.<br>
<br>This sounds almost as unsavory as a past hospital practice of distributing "free samples" of milk from a pharmaceutical company to new born mothers. We are rightly concerned when this continues to happen in third world companies.
<br><br>We should be worried by any commercial software vendor that promotes an injurious subsidization, hostile pricing or distribution scheme.<br><br>Free milk? Get real.<br><br>Regards Roland<div><span class="e" id="q_1145ee843f5fe263_1">
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On 04/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pia Waugh</b> <<a href="mailto:greebo@pipka.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">greebo@pipka.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<quote who="Cameron Bell"><br><br>> * Networking software, including network managing programs and<br>> anti-virus software<br>> * Microsoft licensed software and standard applications
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> * Software that is used for eLearning.<br><br>I've just recently found out (and I can't quote my source unforunately) that<br>several prominent organisations in education have an agreement with<br>Microsoft that means they get even cheaper versions of MS Office if they
<br>agree to not use any competing office solutions (such as Open Office). I<br>can't verify this at the moment, but I thought it would be worth raising. If<br>this is true in any of your schools, Government departments or other, then
<br>it should be tracked down.<br><br>Not only is it anti-competitive, but it is also removing the opportunity for<br>students to learn anything apart from MS Office, which means they are<br>learning products, not concepts. It also discriminates against poorer
<br>students that can't afford to purchase MS products at home to do their<br>homework.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Pia<br><br>--<br>Software Freedom Day 2007 <a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br></span></div><span class="sg">-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead