[Gllug] UK 'pays lip service' to open source in schools

[salsaman]

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=E3BBE6D1-7858-4CC3-A10E-5AC9DBBFB265

Taylor further accused Becta of "paying lip service" to open source and 
ignoring its own research. A May 2005 Becta report indicated that the 
use of open source software could produce total cost savings of 44% per 
PC for primary schools and 24% for secondary schools, compared to 
standard commercial software PC configurations.

"Restricting open source to 'you can buy this product' is not correct. 
Open source can't participate in the discounting of licensing of product 
because the product is already discounted as much as it can be."

"It's legislated monopoly," said Taylor. "It's public knowledge that if 
a public sector organization is looking at open source Microsoft will 
reduce its prices as much as possible to get the contract."

Gabriel.

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