[SLUG] Bristol and Council tax

[Stephen O'Neill]

Mike Bennett wrote:
> Just a couple of links (some others get filtered by my school's stupid
> proxy system (and they force us to use IE *shudder*).

My job is developing web based software for schools... when I had my 
interview for the job I mentioned about open source encroaching in 
schools and my soon to be bosses just laughed at me. Basically it's not 
happening, at all - it's windows all the way.

Whenever you hear of schools and IT in the news it will invariably 
feature "software supplied by Microsoft" it seems.

To be fair on schools they need to follow their suppliers on what to use 
- after all, they're there to teach not master IT... if IT businesses 
are wholly dependent upon MS then it shouldn't be surprising that 
schools are.

But then there's the chicken and the egg - because MS are so strong in 
schools it's only ever going to be a minority who know enough to 
challenge their domination when the leave school.

/soap_box

Steve O

		
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