Open Source in Schools

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"Critics say Becta - the government agency that oversees the procurement of all technology for schools - has not done enough to promote OSS.

"Peter Hughes, head of procurement agreements at Becta, told the BBC that more would be done.

"As an organisation, we have been criticised for not adequately covering open source solutions and our predominance of proprietary solutions, such as those by Microsoft."

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