Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools

[Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>]

Heracles wrote:
> 
> Just one small point that seems to have been missed in this discussion:
> 
> Our wonderful State Government has ALREADY paid Microsoft $10,000,000  for
> a general licence to use Microsoft products in ALL  government schools.
> (Victoria paid $3,000,000 for the same deal)

Yes, in the first instance, but the Dept of (school) education
recovers that money from the general fund allocated to each school.
Schools had no choice in the matter.

In Qld, which has also done this,  schools jacked up and so an
exemption was given to schhols that had Macs!!!

> Every government school in the statr should have already received their 30
> CD pack  which includes amongst other products:
> Windows 98 SE       Office  2000   and   Visual BASIC  6.0
> So it does not matter whether schools use it or not, it is already paid
> for.


By the school, which means they loose money to buy other necessities.
> 
> Now,  why do you think schools use Microsoft products?   They are the
> government endorsed option!

government forced option.
> 
> Now let us get back to important matters like Pizza and Coke!
> 
> In the words of Wilson Tuckey:  "Only monkeys earn less than $90,000 a
> year".  So let us monkeys get back to teaching the kids ---- "Microsoft
> good  ...  Linux bad",  like Bill and the state government want. Parents
> don't really care as long as they get cheap babysitting for the day while
> they are at work (or the pub).

Sadly, this is true (for some).

Just remembered. Down this way, we have a perennial candicate for
state and council elections. Famous quote when asked to sign a
permission note for her son to receive remedial help with his reading
"So what. He doesn't need to know how to do that. He can always get a
job as a horse breaker like his father" I'm sure there are others like
her.

If she knew how to read, she might have read WC Field's maximum about
never appearing in pictures with animals or children. they always
upstage you. The horse looked beautiful on her council election
brochure.


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