<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Woohoo! Someone actually looking at the software licensing issues. Once they fix NSW I hope they head south to wean Spring St off the software treadmill.<div><br></div><div>Adam Barbary</div><div>Viewbank College</div><div><br><div><div>On 07/05/2008, at 5:30 PM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><a class="snap_shots" href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/FE73A77E2BB96F21CC257425007DCB21">Computerworld has published an interesting story</a> about computers rolling out to schools. The NSW department of education has announced that it will install OpenOffice, on 41,000 computers due to be distributed to schools across the state by the end of 2008. They will also downgrade every new computer it buys from Vista to Windows XP. <br><br>The report notes that "This incurred an additional expense in the short term, he says, but was less expensive over the life of the computer. The move is less a backlash against Microsoft and more recognition that the purchasing model for software in educational institutions is changing."<br><br>It seems as if somebody in NSW is wide awake and noticed that the world of ICT is changing very fast. Well, good on them!<br><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 _______________________________________________ <br> <a href="http://www.edulists.com.au"> http://www.edulists.com.au </a> - FAQ, resources, subscribe, unsubscribe <br> Open Source Mailing List kindly supported by <br> <a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au"> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au </a> - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority and <br> <a href="http://www.vitta.org.au"> http://www.vitta.org.au </a> - VITTA Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association Inc</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>