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15 July 2009
Bill Gates Gets Sharing...Almost
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Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft's attempt to persuade scientists to adopt its unloved Windows HPC platform by throwing in a few free ...
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21 May 2009
GNU/Linux's Secret Weapon: USB Drives
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I've always been a huge fan of live CDs/DVDs: effectively, they let you try out distros before you install them - and try out multiple o...
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06 April 2009
All Tatarstan Schools Moving to Free Software
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Tatarstan is the place to be: До конца текущего года все школы Татарстана планируется перевести на свободное программное обеспечение на баз...
24 February 2009
CK-12 Foundation Re-invents Textbooks
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It's no surprise that textbooks are being radically re-invented - after all, in the past they have been hideously expensive, which means...
13 January 2009
How Open Source Will Save Education
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One of my favourite writers is John Robb; his book Brave New War is all about "open source warfare" - how the ideas behind open s...
16 December 2008
Learning from Education
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Last week I went along to the Westminster Education Forum. The programme was only peripherally concerned with open source – Mark Taylor from...
05 November 2008
Too Right
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This is something that I've been thinking in the context of the wretched "three strikes and you're out": The internet is ...
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16 September 2008
BECTA Back in Play
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Just in case you thought things were getting a little dull in the world of UK computing compared to, say, UK finance, here comes the BECTA r...
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09 September 2008
When Will They Ever Learn?
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Here's some news from Red Hat: We’ve partnered with Seneca College, one of the leaders in instituting open source software into its cour...
05 August 2008
Free Software Adds Some Polish (Schools)
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The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the ...
18 April 2008
When Will They Ever Learn?
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On Open Enterprise blog .
17 April 2008
Open Textbooks - An Idea Whose Time has Come?
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Well, there's this call for affordable textbooks, including open textbooks: One thousand professors from over 300 colleges in all 50 st...
03 April 2008
The Russian Experiment
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I've always thought that Russia offered very fertile ground for free software. It has some of the best hackers in the worlds (not to me...
23 November 2006
Get 'Em While They're Young
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I was going to write about this , but Matthew Aslett has done such a good job , there's not much point: Several UK Members of Parliament...
01 November 2006
50 Bits and Bobs about Open Source
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Well, that's what I'd call it: the blog prefers "50 Open Source success stories in Business, Education, and Government". ...
21 October 2006
Innovating all the Way to Openness
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Innovate - the "journal of online education" - has an issue exploring the potential of open source software and related trends t...
09 October 2006
The Cartridge Standard: Common, but how Open?
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Defining industry-wide standards is usually good news - if they are open, that is. So when I heard abou the Common Cartridge Standard for d...
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11 July 2006
Of Sakai and Moodle
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Sakai may not be a name that is known to many in the world of free software, but it's one of the leading open source projects in the fi...
08 July 2006
Open Source in Schools: Could Try Harder
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A few months back I wrote about open source's big blunder : its neglect of the education sector. So I was naturally curious when I came...
10 January 2006
Open Source's Big Blunder
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It is easy to be fooled by the success of open source software. High-profile applications like Apache and Firefox are routinely cited for t...
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