On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote:

> 
>   I think we should try and pass legislation that schools will be forbidden
> to require the students to purchase closed software to submit their
> schoolwork. 
How is that different than requiring students to buy a certain textbook?
(In Haifa we rarely did that. Most textbooks were loaned to us, but I 
believe in most of the country high school students are still required to 
buy them, and sometimes they are required to buy a specific edition)

> Also, we should reduce public spending on  non-open software
> development - CET should be producing open software that could then be
> ported by the community (maybe using winelib).
> 
>   Alon
> 
> 

-- 
Thanks,
Uri
http://translation.israel.net


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