[Gllug] BBC says 210 million UKP for school computers

[Gordon Joly]

Bill Gates wants to get 'em when they are young!

But there is always a friendly penguin close at hand..

http://www.linuxforkids.org/

No report on http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/default.stm as yet.

On a related note.

School vouchers: Are they a rip-off? (see the talking point below)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1695000/1695174.stm

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Schools and other organization pay massive fees to licence Microsoft 
software, but many waking up "free software", such as Open Office and 
Star Office.

Gordo

At 10:42 +0000 2001-12-10, robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:
>There was a brief news item on BBC TV news this morning that the government
>had announced 210 million UKP for UK school computers. Has anyone seen any
>links to this? We know how to make their money go futher don't we, get 'em
>hooked on Linux when they are young :-)
>
>Robin Smith

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