Michael Devenish wrote:
Hi,
BECTA are advising UK schools not to sign licensing agreements with
Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7063716.stm
Openoffice.org gets a mention as well (referred to as Open Office).
Regards,
Michael Devenish
This is quite an old story - I've been reading about this this for some
time and a couple of weeks ago, becta announced that they had refferred
M$ to OFT (The Office of Fair Trading) here in the UK.
When I first saw Becta's report (early this year) I sent it to George
Osbourne (the UK's Shadow Chancellor and a proponent of OSS, and to my
local MP). Anyone interested could do the same and bring it to the
attention of more MPs...
Here's my take on it: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?s=Becta.
Read the bottom post first as they are chronological.
Cheers
Alan
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