Tom Brinkman wrote:

>On Monday 03 June 2002 07:48 pm, Franki wrote:
>
>>have you all read this????
>>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_2023000/2023127.stm
>
>>great stuff!!!
>>Frank
>>
>
>  "Mexico, for instance, has mandated open source in its education 
>system - although it is widely believed to have botched the 
>implementation."   
>
>    Nobody tol'em about sleazy win-only-hardware ;>
>

Ummm, actually what they did was slash the IT budgets of all the schools 
and send out CDs with linux.  No support, no training, no concept of the 
cost of conversion.  They took it because it was free, but they didn't 
realize the fdifference between "libre" and "gratuit".

Civileme

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