I understand... However all is not lost. A good way to start is to run Gimp for windows, OpenOffice for Windows and AbiWord for Windows. Make copies on CD-Roms and send them home with all your kids. You're still using the MS OS but you've taken a big step in showing the value of free software.
Long journey -- small steps! ;-) Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Zoolander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:29 AM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Software Freedom Day - July 4th > On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 15:00, Paul Nelson wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > > > We're inviting you to a party. Come join us and celebrate Free Software! > > > > http://k12ltsp.org/software_freedom.html > > > > Unfortunately we don't have software freedom in our schools in > Australia, I offered to set up Linux servers using LTSP (for free) to my > kid's primary School in Queensland, Australia. Below is the response > from the headmaster and my response to him > > > > > > Hello John, > > Thank you for your letter of 28 May regarding the possibilities of > using > > Linux in our new technology hub. > > > > While it sounds very interesting, I need to inform you that we are > bound by > > Education Queensland's policies on this issue. That means we need to > abide > > by the User Agreement that Ed Qld. has signed with Microsoft to use > standard > > Operating Systems - Windows N.T 4 - in all schools. I believe it is a > 5 year > > agreement. > > That limits us in terms of what you are proposing. > > It may be worth while to explore the options with Central Office as > they > > are the ones making these decisions. > > > > Thanks for your continuing interest in this school > > Regards > > > > Hello Andy, > > Thanks for the reply, it is a pity that the Queensland Government have > taken this rather narrow path. As I said, Linux is used all over the > World with great success, I understand that your hands are tied which is > regrettable. Queensland, "The Smart State", I don't think so. > > > > regards, > > > John > > > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
