Windows en el cole por 8 euros, ¿qué fue del código abierto? →
The linked text is in Spanish, the title says: Windows in the schools for 8 Euros, whatever happened to open source?
According to the text, Microsoft is selling Window 7 to Spanish education system with about a 90% of discount over the market price (8€ per student/year).
The education Ministry and Microsoft have signed today an agreement that will allow the different Spanish autonomic regions acquiring Windows 7 within the “Escuela 2.0” program -School 2.0 (sic), the government new program for digitalization of the education-.
What can I say? After years of free software support and advocacy, this is very sad and I feel ashamed of the government of my country.
And they keep saying that the laptops they’re going to provide to the students will have dual boot so privative software and free software have the same opportunities. WTF?!
Finally the school 2.0 won’t be built upon opensource software. I was right being reluctant, what a lost oportunity. All what I think has already been said by usebox.
Extra ball: Press release of the announcement.
