On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 15:00, Paul Nelson wrote: > Hello Folks, > > We're inviting you to a party. Come join us and celebrate Free Software! > > http://k12ltsp.org/software_freedom.html
Unfortunately we don't have software freedom in our schools in Australia, I offered to set up Linux servers using LTSP (for free) to my kid's primary School in Queensland, Australia. Below is the response from the headmaster and my response to him > Hello John, > Thank you for your letter of 28 May regarding the possibilities of using > Linux in our new technology hub. > > While it sounds very interesting, I need to inform you that we are bound by > Education Queensland's policies on this issue. That means we need to abide > by the User Agreement that Ed Qld. has signed with Microsoft to use standard > Operating Systems - Windows N.T 4 - in all schools. I believe it is a 5 year > agreement. > That limits us in terms of what you are proposing. > It may be worth while to explore the options with Central Office as they > are the ones making these decisions. > > Thanks for your continuing interest in this school > Regards > Hello Andy, Thanks for the reply, it is a pity that the Queensland Government have taken this rather narrow path. As I said, Linux is used all over the World with great success, I understand that your hands are tied which is regrettable. Queensland, "The Smart State", I don't think so. regards, John _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net