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Linux, not the cloud, will save schools

[ Thanks to e5rebel for this link.
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“We know Gordon’s Education Secretary Mr Balls has a
long-term Orwellian fantasy whereby ICT is delivered to all schools
from a centralised, Cloud-based app-store run by the Cabinet
Office.

“Such desire for total control probably exceeds even my jaded
imagination but with luck he will run out of money and time to
realise such a nightmarish vision. Even if you have no qualms about
‘Big-State’ control you can bet that there would be only a very few
chosen vendors allowed to provide state ICT (Capita, Serco, RM,
Microsoft would be about right). Down with the Cloud, I say.”


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