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

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 08:59, ian wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 22:48, Neil Darlow wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I had the following forwarded to me via an original post to the Milton 
> > Keynes
> > LUG mailing list. I think it demonstrates some consideration for FLOSS by 
> > BECTA.
> 
> BECTA is conducting a TCO study of FLOSS.

> They
> really have to do something about FLOSS as is exists in the education
> domain.

Again I appreciate the constructive directions taken by Neil Darlow and
Ian but at the same time would like to point out that I saw on
lugmasters list M$ is spamming lugmasters  (last night ?) to conduct
another 'study'.
This should sum up the destructive effect on free software by market
researches.

Regards,

Ramanan