Paul Sutton, 29/07/20 21:31: > In the UK I guess on main piece of software is SIMS, this is a school > management software system seems to have been around for decades. so it > helps to manage all sorts of essential school, and student data.
Ah yes, that's a whole other story. Do students ever have to interact directly with it? In Italy there's U-Gov <https://www.cineca.it/progetti/u-gov>, which is practically speaking a legal monopoly. The provider is a consortium which is nominally owned by the universities, but is in practice used by the ministry to enslave them. So they're happy to keep it proprietary even though it cost them several lost lawsuits already. The ministry is happy to foot the bill as long as it buys some power for the bureaucracy in Rome. Federico _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
