New thread to discuss the deplorable IT stuff in schools - I helped a Community Group get some kids to play with digital photography yesterday. We had the use of a local secondary school which will remain nameless.
They were using licensed copy of a windows shareware program called Paint Shop Pro, version 4.something - I think the latest is 7 or 8. The PSP software has always been pretty good, but the version we had was a bit old... I asked why they had the old version - "licensing costs, we use photoshop for the serious photography classes, but that costs an arm and a leg" I am going to send the guy a link to the gimp website, the gimp of course being available for windows, and having no licensing issues. Naturally neither photoshop nor PSP come within the MS/Ministry licensing deal, sosome schools are still paying very real money for some software. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
