What about all the jobs that people have when they develop software that
is paid for and licensed? If the switch to free software were to
suddenly happen, would these people find themselves out of work?
This isn't a stab at anybody, it's just an observation that I'd like to
put in there. And
Matt Barber m...@progressive.org.uk wrote at 13:10 on 2009-02-11:
What about all the jobs that people have when they develop software that
is paid for and licensed? If the switch to free software were to
suddenly happen, would these people find themselves out of work?
This isn't a stab at
I can't see the ed sector taking on free software in any great volume
in the near future ... the issues around support and compatibility
(with workplaces and what parents have at home) are just too great.
If there was to be a shift away from MS/Windows, I think it is more
likely to be in
Under BSF SUN now runs Bradford local authority schools IT
From
http://blogs.sun.com/joehartley/entry/back_to_a_new_school
The computers were not conventional PCs, but _Sun Ray thin clients
http://www.sun.com/sunray/index.jsp%20_. Sun Ray clients enable
virtualized desktop sessions to run on a
I'm glad you pointed this out. There are more obviously. Why is this
discussion operating like there aren't entire governments, schools and
nations already moving to or running open source? Andalusia (Guadlinex),
Extremadura (gnuLinEx), Madrid (MAX) in Spain have had their own
distributions for
For the past two years, the Ile-de-France region which includes Paris
has distributed 200,000 USB keys with free open source software to
students of 450 secondary schools each September.
The gcompris project (= j'ai compris = I understood) for young
students is available for all platforms in over
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