[Technical] Linux at a Sydney school

[Roland Gesthuizen]

G'day Clarky ..

Perhaps not the only choice, we happily provide both MS and OpenSource
installations on our college base workstation image and I am only teaching
IT with the OpenDocument format. Fortunately it isnt another VHS vs BETA
scenario as skills and documents can be readily shared between both. I dont
bag MS and emphasise that students using MS Office do the right thing and
pay for their software. Nobody in my immediate family now uses MS Office but
I will happily accept that we are probably an exception and certainly the
richer. :-)

Regards Roland

PS: I'm at the Athletes Village .. watching the long jump with the others
and looking up all the stats on the system here. Cool stuff to share when we
meet up next .. :-D

On 3/23/06, Clark, Ian C <clark.ian.c at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au
> > [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Con Zymaris
> > Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:10 AM
> > To: tech at edulists.com.au
> > Subject: [Technical] Linux at a Sydney school
> >
> > Seems to me that only independent schools have the free hand
> > necessary to move beyond the Microsoft lock-in. If you're a
> > state school, the Education department calls the shots, and
> > those shots are almost always proprietary.
>
> I'm afraid Con, that Micro$oft is overwhelmingly the chosen
> implementation in Independent schools, Catholic schools, TAFES, people's
> homes, small and large businesses.
>
> Cheers,
> Clarky
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