when I was in primary school I made plans to send a large bomb to RM On 26 August 2010 22:31, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbpli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/08/2010 22:27, Kris Douglas wrote: > > On 26 August 2010 22:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker<gbpli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 26/08/2010 19:25, Kris Douglas wrote: > >>> but said because of the computer contract with Research Machines, > >> My wife works for the largest Educational Publisher in the world and RM > >> is a TOTAL NIGHTMARE. They dictate to schools what software they can or > >> can't use - any software has to be "validated" by RM in INDIA????? They > >> are not out to provide a service to schools - just to empire build and > >> make a profit. > > From what I have seen, I can do nothing else but agree with you there, > > it's not just the software, they enforce rules on it all, and if those > > rules aren't followed they just don't support you. (i.e goodbye Linux > > partition on our CPT machines, one was formatted with ubuntu, and the > > RM engineer removed it because he thought that was causing the poor > > windows performance. -failing to notice it was set to download the > > users documents off of the server for each user that logged in.) > > > > It's about time that schools took a stand - unfortunately what RM do is > to contract with the LEA not individual schools, so schools get RM > foisted on them by the LEA and there's nothing they can do about it - > no doubt with substantial backhanders to the LEA members. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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