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Open Source in Schools and Government

Fri, September 9, 2005 — Category: Personal

Question: If LINUX is that good, than why isn´t the US GOVT using it?
Because our government is controlled by business. It would be un-american to NOT use proprietary software and pay for it.
Most people are pretty much in the dark about Linux, et. al open source projects. Other governments around the world are starting to […]

Question: If LINUX is that good, than why isn´t the US GOVT using it?

Because our government is controlled by business. It would be un-american to NOT use proprietary software and pay for it.

Most people are pretty much in the dark about Linux, et. al open source projects. Other governments around the world are starting to use open source the, netherlands, australia, africa.

Seeing the our public schools pay big bucks for MS-outdated software are, in as far as technology goes (jr. high computer classes running windows 98 on 10 year old computers). Microsoft wants $1600 to upgrade them to windows 2000 for 30 computers. “Your Future, Our Passion(TM)?” More like “Pay up, and you get the old stuff we stopped supporting 2 years ago!” (TM).

Some of the local students are using FireFox, Open Office and Gimp (the Photoshop replacement) on the windows machines.

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Comment by Dave

September 26, 2005 @ 5:25 am

The reason why the US Gov’t uses Microsoft and not open sourced software is that it’s easily supportable. Also, would you expect the typical gov’t worker to understand Linux. I think not…

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Comment by Anthony

September 26, 2005 @ 11:02 am

Heh…well, I wouldn’t expect the typical government worker to understand windows either…but with a little training…

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