New Zealand school goes totally open source
Albany Senior High School in Auckland New Zealand is a new school, set up just last year in 2009. Most education institutions are “Microsoft shops” but this school has bucked […]
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A call for the Government to use Free software
It has just been revealed that the Australian Government spends “over half a billion dollars each year” on proprietary software licenses. That’s somewhere over $500,000,000. The Greens are heading a […]
Read moreNicaraguan schools to move to Linux
Argentia, Brazil, Linux activity is a hot bed in South America. Now the latest country, Nicaragua, has announced that they are migrating their schools to Linux. The Ministry of Education […]
Read moreDanish and German schools to get OpenOffice.org
It’s happening all around the world, but here is a report from Germany and Danmark about schools rolling out OpenOffice.org. The administration of the Danish municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk is installing […]
Read moreNSW locks students into proprietary systems
The NSW Government has announced the roll out of 240,000 netbooks to year 9 students. The system is completely proprietary: Windows 7 Microsoft Office Adobe Photoshop Apple iTunes and more.. […]
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