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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Dean Wilson [<A HREF="mailto:dean.wilson3@virgin.net">mailto:dean.wilson3@virgin.net</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Sent: 28 July 2003 14:19</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> To: Greater London Linux Users Group</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: Re: [Gllug] BBC looking for campaigners</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Formi wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Richard Jones wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >> <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3092607.stm" TARGET="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3092607.stm</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >> Maybe we don't walk around with placards, but there are plenty of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >> issues at hand</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Which angle would you play though? The cost to the public and </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the warped</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> way they solicit tenders would be a good underdog story "We </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> went into this</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> school and reduced the IT departments budget spending by X. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Look at the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> happy little gits on the swings." with lots of great PR </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> oppotunities for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> photoshoots. Little smiling kiddies with giant Penguins and lizards.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I would love to tell you that would work, but I'm not convinced. In my experience with my daughters' school, the staff are highly reliant on the governors for any additional IT expertese (or their partners, as with me) and those people are all Windows-only. When i talked to them about 'nix I was regarded as coming from the Planet Anorak.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>This was a primary school - so the savings would not have been big in any case. Secondary schools could be very different, but MS have a point when they talk about TOC in this environment - the teachers are trained to use Wintel, the parents use Wintel. It is very difficylt to break through in this environment. That is why the "revolution" will run from the server to the workplace to the home and not the other way round.</FONT></P>
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