Hi, Good point Amos. The companies that will bid with an open solution will surely have a price advantage. Closed source companies, in the past, have shown to be inclined to give unreasonable discounts on software for schools, so that in 10 years from now, all NGO's and other organisations with money will think there is nobody that can type a letter in Openoffice in the country. That trap has worked quite well for them. A well informed UCC would be able to notice that.
rgds, reinier > Reiner, I think the issue is in the bidding. A person who expects to supply > the computers with pre-installed windows will definitely have a higher > bidding price than one who is using FLOSS.. If the bidding notice does not > clearly indicate the type of OS that should be running, then that is the way > to slot inn FLOSS > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Reinier Battenberg < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Today there is a Bid Notice in the Monitor to supply 130 schools in Uganda > > with computers. There is not much more information in the advertisement. > > > > For the interest of the students, I think it would be very benifitial if > > the > > computers would run FLOSS. There are a few arguments for that, which I > > think > > UCC should take into consideration when assigning the final bid. > > > > This being the LUG, i presume there are quite a number of people on this > > list > > that agree with me. > > > > What can we, as a community do, to get our point across to UCC and allow > > these > > 130 schools to run software that they can maintain, learn, translate and > > extend? > > > > -- > > rgds, > > > > Reinier Battenberg > > Director > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > +256 758 801 749 > > www.mountbatten.net > > http://twitter.com/batje > > http://twitter.com/mapuganda > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > > [email protected] > > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > > any way. > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > =============================================== > Amos Mpungu > Global Information and Telecommunications Technology Program (ITTP) > > Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) > > 119 Munji-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon > > 305-732, Republic of Korea > > Mobile: +82-10-7791-4478 > > Fixed: +82-42-350-6845 > > =============================================== > -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net http://twitter.com/batje http://twitter.com/mapuganda _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
