A Good Reason to Go Open Source at School

"This debacle over school computer software shows just how beholden the big institutions in society are to major software companies, and in particular--Microsoft.

"The Government should have just stumped up the $2.7 million to keep Microsoft Office on those Macs, then vowed to go open source when the contract term ends--on all computers in the every school. That's a good ten year plan to have anyway..."

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