On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:08:18 +0200 (CEST) [email protected] wrote: > If you allow me I will tell you a "funny" story that happen to me when I was > in France... > > When I was young I was in a school (in the 78 department for those who know), > > that had old computers running Windows 95 (and we where in 2006). So I > started an action (I was very young at that time xD I have 21years old now > just to make you see) in order to install Ubuntu in all the machines to make > a better use of the Hardware without using old software. > > And I archived to do so, a young Portuguese student in France made all the > computers (more than 200) going from an old Windows 95 to Ubuntu. This made > the local newspaper news as the first public school in the department to > switch to only Gnu/Linux after a student proposition. > > Only 2 weeks after that, I came to the school and saw someone talking to the > responsible of the school... I had a bad feeling at that time. And I was > right. Only 2-3 weeks after that all the computers where switched by new > computers with Windows XP, all of this financed by Microsoft... the school > didn't have to pay a cent ! > > Now they are again in the same situation with they Windows XP and their > single core CPU's, 1GB of Ram etc... But I can't do anything know... > > So yes, if those enterprises continue with the big money for public schools > then those schools will do nothing since they don't have any moral, just > money on the head of the responsible of the school in question.
"funny" ? :D Big problem. School doesn't understand the problem of private software. In IUT school french, they say that students want to have a microsoft system on them computers. The school have to educate the society, not to do a special school for microsoft users.
