[OTT-GOSLING] Ontario Schools have MS only policy?

[Russell McOrmond]

Peter Whittaker wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-29-06 at 11:55 -0500, Corey Burger wrote:
> 
>>Can any of our Ontario members confirm this story?
>>http://p2pnet.net/story/9207

   I'm currently doing an email interview with the teacher in question. 
  What I can say is that it doesn't seem to be board-wide policy, but a 
decision of a principal based on "advise" from staff.   I've send a 
series of questions to the principal and the trustee for that school, 
and hope to have more to publicly report soon.

   I note from the archives of the Ubuntu Canada list that there are 
comments about Microsoft-only policies or existing deals.  What we need 
is documentation of these things, not just roomers.  Anyone have 
references?  We can use Access to Information laws to get details once 
we know a policy exists, if we aren't able to find things other ways.


BTW: Thanks for the introduction to the Ubuntu Canada list.  I now have 
  clients running Ubuntu on their servers (upgrades from older Debian ), 
and once I figure out some of the Xen3 stuff I'll likely have Ubuntu 
installed as XenU's on my servers.  It was Ubuntu that convinced me to 
more closely explore the Debian world, having been a RedHat person since 
I moved from SLS/Slackware many years ago.   I really like the way that 
Fedora handles the Xen3 kernel integration and takes that off my worry 
list, and hope that Ubuntu will offer similar.

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