[Fsfe-uk] Re: OS in schools

[Donald Williams]

I read the comments on OS in Welsh schools and certainly agree with
backing up/advising/supporting those efforts at local level - but it
seems to me that the issue of "binding-in-to-Microsoft" is so well
embedded and all the way down from No 10 (and you can't get much lower
than that!) that it might be politically useful (pragmatically, not
necessarily philosophically!) to get the Greens on board sufficiently to
make contesting it an election issue - a national one.

I have, though, spent many years scrapping in the "community" world and
am extremely wary of the do-goody, chinese-water-torture technique.
Someone's got to get a bit cross. Angry even?

Geographically-concentrated groups (LondonLUG?) might be able/want to
mount a "boycott microsoft" campaign at particular sites/shops - in
Tottenham Court Road, inter alia.

IMHO

Cheers, Don

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