On Friday 12 January 2007 19:40 7 wrote:
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> I think this method should be adopted by schools as well.
> They should pay bounties for open source developers
> to register and improve software to exacting requirements,
> and since the software is open source, it can be continually
> developed through peer review by other schools and open source
> developers at a lower cost than any close source methods.
I'm absolutely with you on this one.
Those bounties would be paid by schools, of course......
- or the Local Education Authority......
- which means that the tax-payer would pay it.....
- which on the face of it, is A Bad Idea....
- but wait! Who gets the benefit?
- other schools....
- which means .... the same tax-payer!
- so what was spent by the tax-payer comes back to the tax-payer
... with no middle-man.
So suppose somebody takes all that S/W for free, and uses it...
- who benefits?
- presumably the kids... what use is educational S/W except for education?
- which is why we were spending the money anyway!
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