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  From: Chris Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org>
  To  : Jason Tan <jason@rebel.rebel.net.au>
  Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:15:29 -0700

Re: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:24:55AM +0930, Jason Tan wrote:
> > in practice anyway.
> > 
> > My concern in this M$ vs *nix (or any other OS, for that matter) is
> > that  public bodies have no right to dictate the use of a particular
> > commercial OS as they do at the moment.  That stricture applies to all
> > education institutions, too.
> 
> Brian could you please clarify here.
> Do you mean that public bodies dont ahve the ritght to dictacte to
> themselves (ue their own internal users) or the public in general?

I find it disturbing when public institutions require the general
public to use proprietary software to interact with them - eg web
pages that can only be accessed by browsers running on windows (or
even worse only work with IE), or negotiating contracts where the
deliverables must be in a proprietary format (eg MS Word). 

Chris.
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