Re: [Fsfe-uk] BECTA discriminate against FLOSS?

[robert w hall]

In message <address@hidden>, Phil Driscoll
<address@hidden> writes
>On Wednesday 17 December 2003 09:22, Alex Hudson wrote:
>
>> Are there examples we can use of people (esp. teachers) using free
>> software?
>My partner (a secondary biology teacher) uses her laptop (running SuSE 9.0) to 
>produce course materials, and even to process the key stage 3 science 
>strategy materials which the LEA send her in Word doc format.
>
It would be interesting to know how many trainee teachers satisfy their
PGCE IT requirements with open-source, or even non-M$, programs. I
largely managed the latter (WordPerfect for linux, standard sc
spreadsheets, xv for linux etc) and raised a few eyebrows when I moaned
at only being taught about MS-Office products. 

(This was 98-99 at Cheltenham & Gloucester CHE, when I was a mature, nay
over-ripe, student in my early 50s)

Bob Hall
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robert w hall