[Nottingham] Fwd: The UK's cruelest cut

[Jason Irwin]

On 24/05/12 13:41, ForkBombFluf wrote:
> Sure, if you're willing to be patient about it. You'll likely need to
> implement the bottom-up rather the top-down approach to have much
> success, though.  Get FLOSS into the schools first, and get the kids
> used to it and hooked on it instead of Microsoft.  Even Apple knows
> this, and it gave them a nice in-road to the share of the market they
> have in the US today.
To get into schools you need the money to ensure that the correct people
are properly informed at various lunches, dinners, sporting events and
exotic locations.  Only after digesting all this could they possibly
reach a decision.  Unbiased, of course.  Cough.

OK, so that is a slightly defeatist attitude.  But with major
institutions such as universities* (who have hordes of hopefully
intelligent CompSci students to draw on) not supporting GNU/Linux, what
hope is there for a school to do so?

Any change usually seems to come from left-field rather than any
vertical direction with one player simply saying "Nuts to this" and
doing their own thing.  OpenMolar, RasPi, Ernie Ball etc.

The situation is even worse in the USA where advertising for various
products is actually embedded into the text books.  "Billy has $2, he
buys SuperCola(tm) for $1 and MegaNuts(tm) for $0.50.  How much money
does Billy have left?"

-- 
Jason Irwin
*Notts is not the only one, and the attitude there is better than what I
have seen elsewhere.  Which always staggers me.