That does not sound very encouraging. I'd be interested to see if Victorian schools have a simiar agreement, if not......... One thing I cant understand is how the agreement can force people to use Windows? Its very disturbing to find that the Education department would sign such an agreement. I find it difficult to believe that they cannot use other operating systems, or even just dual boot. > ---------- > From: Derek Zoolander[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 3 June 2002 6:29 PM > To: Paul Nelson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Software Freedom Day - July 4th > > 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 >
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