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Its a start, I am a student with the OU, I think they give away copies of openoffice or star office so students can do course work, Paul Adrian Midgley wrote: >Tony Sumner wrote: > > >>... >>which might help to bring the issue to the notice of a wider group of >>people. >> >> >> >An early day motion may help as well .... > >That this House congratulates the Open University and other schools, >colleges and universities for utilising free and open source software to >deliver cost-effective educational benefit not just for their own >institutions but also the wider community; and expresses concern that >Becta and the Department for Education and Skills, through the use of >outdated purchasing frameworks, are effectively denying schools the >option of benefiting from both free and open source and the value and >experience small and medium ICT companies could bring to the schools >market. > >http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31752&SESSION=885 > > >(from another list) > > > -- http://www.zleap.net -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html