Business-to-Linux event (Was- A group statement on SCO'sactions)

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Our secondary (High School, Junior High) schools are almost exclusively
Windows; Our elementary schools are almost exclusively Macintosh
(mostly still on OS 9). I've found it _very_ difficult to get our
decision makers to embrace OSS. We had one bright spot when Merrill
Oveson gave us a tour of his facilities (they were impressed) -- but,
unfortunately, it did not translate into action.

The main difficulty is that this district (and I suspect others)
are structured to provide leadership and career-path opportunities
for educators.  This means we have very little technical experience
among our decision makers -- and sometimes they just don't get it when
we try to explain an advantage to OSS. I think they tend to label
all OSS as "Linux" (without really understanding what Linux is) and
don't really understanding that adopting OSS doesn't mean you _have_
to dump everything you have for a new OS, offices suite, etc.

In the case of our decision makers, I think it would be helpful if
they could see both Linux-only setups, as well as OSS in a Windows/Mac
environment.

Dave Turnbull

>>We should probably be enlightened by Dave 
>>what schools and districts really do use.....


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