[Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] Free software

Fri Oct 8 15:29:45 EST 2010

Brett mate,  ....what is FOSS?

Kent Beveridge
ICT Co-ordinator, St.Brigids CSC, HORSHAM,Vic,Aus.
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Sent: Thursday, 7 October 2010 2:25 PM
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Question is Kent why then are you still using proprietary software?

In my experience FOSS is often more robust and functional and is of course....free.

Leave Bill and Steve and come to the light Kent..lol

Brett Groves
ICT Manager
Croydon Secondary College

On 06/10/10 22:26, Kent Beveridge wrote:
Unfortunately, seems us in the Catholic system miss out on the freebies..
Just contacted my techie who informed me that we paid a (insert large $figure here) sum for our recent software licenses.
Ah, well, cant have everything I guess.

Still, we do try hard to maintain the highest quality of product delivery that we can and pride ourselves in that fact. As too, I am sure we all do (or should!).

cheers, and seeya at he upcoming conference kiddies..

come to my and AJ's panel session and have an input to improve our service to county clients...or just to say gday!

Kent.
(my vegie patch is now doin well ...YAY!).

Kent Beveridge
ICT Co-ordinator, St.Brigids CSC, HORSHAM,Vic,Aus.
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Sent: Wednesday, 6 October 2010 4:31 PM
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It will save schools spending thousands. The reality is that there is no free lunch, the tax payer still pays. I guess that we should be mindful and respectful of this. Statewide software purchases could just as easily work by tagging the grants and allowing local users to choose.

Please, I don't want to rain on the party but I am forever suspicious of when peter may be pinched to pay for paul. The economics of supply and demand is quirky with software. Double the sales does not really double the supply costs. It is more about market share and placement, a battleground that should never eclipse good teaching and great schooling.

Regards Roland

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au<mailto:kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
But the new image will contain Adobe CS5!  That's the nifty bit; it will save us thousands.

On 6 October 2010 09:24, Mann, Warrick D <Mann.Warrick.D at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:Mann.Warrick.D at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
I believe we edit the edustar image to get what we want out of it add drivers etc and add Adobe CS3

Cheers
Warrick

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Not so great.

Our experience is that the eduSTAR image is only good for Lenovo laptops. Installing on other machines, notebook or desktop, has resulted in configuration problems = unstable.

We continue to build our own images; I have yet to find a DEECD image that is acceptable/stable/functional.

Doubt it will change. L

cheers,
Geoff Hutchison,
IT Manager/Coordinator,
McGuire College,
Shepparton, Vic

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My techie discovered this interesting link

http://wiki.doe.wan/index.php/Purchasing_Software_for_Schools

which says DEECD schools will be getting Adobe CS5 for free soon on the Edustar Win7 version 3a image.

Goodo!

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