BW )(: Petition - open source in schools

[Ale Fernandez]

Hi Woodsy,

I think it's not worth it as it currently reads... It'll only attract 
the purist linux-everywhere-hey-actually-it's-gnu crowd, rather than for 
example general public teachers, parents or students.

For example, the first 3 reasons the petition gives are malware, 
compatibility and language choice - I think they are plucked from a hat 
and it's very easy for a microsoftie to argue reasons against them, and 
there are far better reasons to use open source than that(eg: price, 
openness, works on older hardware etc).

Re the BECTA mention, I think there's even an EU recommendation or fancy 
doc somewhere (no time to look it up) that pushes people to use open 
source in education. So my guess is it'll get a few thousand votes, but 
not nearly as many as it needs, but a slightly better-written petition 
could get masses of people signing, and by saying that, I'm not 
volunteering to write it.. :)

Hope you're well!

Ale

Steve Woods wrote:
> "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Make the primary
> operating system used in state schools free and open source"
> 
> http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools/
> 
> Cheers
> Woodsy
> 
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