DOE says no OS for Teacher Laptop Initiative
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 13 May, 2009Spotted on IOL ...
Department of Education shuts out open source
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Despite a national open source strategy and a well-publicised set of minimum interoperability standards for government, the South African education department has launched a teacher laptop project that excludes free and open source software (FOSS).
The Teacher Laptop Initiative, which was launched by the outgoing education minister Naledi Pandor last week, will grant teachers a monthly allowance to purchase and maintain a laptop that meets minimum specifications set out by the education department.
The specifications laid out by the department, however, specify that qualifying laptop computers must run “Windows XP or higher”, include Microsoft Office as well as use Windows Live.