<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/27 Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Arguments in Spain about their school laptop project:<br>
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<a href="http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/spanish_government_reconsiders_school_laptop_project" target="_blank">http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/spanish_government_reconsiders_school_laptop_project</a><br>
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</div>Yes...an interesting definition of "Dual Boot": choose the O/S and the other<br>
one is uninstalled....but you still have to pay for the Windows option.<br>
</blockquote><div><br> I think the Spanish Government is missing the obvious, shouldn't a pilot project be carried out with selected schools to evaluate the functionality/usability of the laptops with their respective operating systems prior to mass deployment? What matters is the feedback of the kids and teachers to determine what is appropriate within their education infrastructure rather than the political masquerades of O.S. Tsars. One example of this was when Microsoft badgered Negroponte into putting Windows XP onto the OLPC, it doesn't need an 'O' level in computer savvy to work out that Windows XP was totally inappropriate in functionality/usability for the OLPC. After Windows XP was installed onto the OLPC and sent out to different Governments for appraisal they were sent back with the message "No Thanks". So a pilot study with a widely promulgated open report on the results would be beneficial to all concerned. For instance, if it was revealed that were any deficiencies in the deployment of open source software within their education infrastructure then open source developers can look at ways in rectifying these issues.<br>
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