Users want better tools and some FLOSS software can give it to them but they have no idea that those tools are available. Even their IT offices are sometimes as clueless as their users.
Some of them equate "open" to absence of security and disregard opensource alternatives altogether. When I introduce or propose solutions based on FLOSS, I don't dwell on the software being opensource but focus on their features and capabilities.
When it comes to cost, that's where I mention the benefits of opensource. You really can't beat zero acquisition price. We deal mostly with back-end stuff. Mas madali yun kesa sa desktop e.
On 6/19/06, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wow, this is good news. Is there a link to an official statement or presscon?On 6/19/06, Jayjay Ferro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hi all, just wanted to give you a heads up regarding
progress towards FLOSS in public high schools.
I can confirm that the government agency that's giving
FLOSS a boost right now is the DTI. A partnership
composed of ASI, ASTI, and Leonovo won the bid to be
the supplier of DTI's 3rd rollout of the PCPS (PC's
for Public schools) program. They're using Fedora core
4 as the OS. ASTI's providing the training, and
Lenovo's providing the hardware. They'll be shipping
computers, 10 to a school, loaded with Fedora Core 4,
a local version of Wikipedia, and strangely, a HTML
version of Encarta, and all the usual apps that's
default to Fedora, including OpenOffice, to at least
2000 schools around the Philippines starting next
month.
I wasn't able to tell people about it before, because
it was a long time before the winning bid was
officially approved. They won the bid as long as
February but the sign off was delayed due to pressure
from various groups. Anyway, after some intervention
from some people in the private sector, the bid was
approved and so now the Philippines is actually in the
process of a major move to FLOSS. Great fun!
- JJ Ferro--John Peter Loh
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