2009/2/8 Vinothan Shankar <neversaymon...@googlemail.com>: > I've created a petition to the Prime Minister to make the primary OS in > schools free and open source - it can be found at > http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools. To anyone that points > out I should have suggested Ubuntu for Education, the first submission > did, but was rejected on the grounds that it was "promoting commercial > products or services". The petition should probably also have pointed > out that schools could keep the same hardware, but petitions there are > restricted to 1000 characters including spaces. >
This has been discussed heavily elsewhere including on the BBC Backstage mailing list. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html For those not on it the thread is archived here:- http://www.mail-archive.com/backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg10515.html One particular mail which caught my eye:- http://www.mail-archive.com/backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg10518.html Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
