I am a governor at a lower school, and I also work in IT, so I am aware of the savings that can be made by using open source software.
I have suggested several times that the school could save money by using the free OpenOffice package instead of purchasing licenses for Microsoft Office 2003, but the schools view is that children would eventually have to learn MS Office anyway when they leave school, so there is little point in making them use an alternative package.
To be fair, I don't think they are spending much on the MS Office licenses - the cost of the hardware is far more significant. However, I would still be interested in how other schools justify OpenSource when there is resistance like this.
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