Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> Seems like it contains useful ammunition. (from a lwn.net link) >> >> Linux in U.S. Schools: Why the Resistance? >> September 4, 2008 >> By Matt Hartley > > Well, the article targets the technical side, again. And ignores the > people side, again. > > Schools now have a bunch of federal regulations that they must adhere to > "to protect the children." This means that there are Federally blessed > software packages that you can point to when being sued as claim > "standard practice." > > > In addition, schools aren't buying software for performance so much as > "blame transfer." At SDSU, I was guilty of this as well. > > I *hate* Blackboard (a course management system). Really, really hate > it. The students hate it, too. Guess what I put all their grades into? > > Blackboard. > > Why? Because the security of Blackboard is an SEP--somebody else's > problem. If it gets broken into, not my problem. Of course, this holds > at all levels, if it gets broken into, not the admin's problem, it's > Blackboard's problem. And Blackboard has enough revenue to be lawyered > up so that it isn't even really their problem. > > > And, when you are buying software as protection money, it costs the same > amount of money whether you use Linux or Windows, so why switch? >
So where do we go to learn about blame-management economics? [politics?] Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
