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posted by mrpg on Wednesday March 08 2017, @02:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the enough-toe-dipping,-already dept.

BGR (originally Boy Genius Report) reports

The Kerala government has made a saving of Rs 300 crore through introduction and adoption of Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) in the school education sector, said a state government official [February 26]. IT became a compulsory subject in Kerala schools from 2003, but it was [only in 2005] that FOSS was introduced in a phased manner and started to replace proprietary software.

[...] "The proprietary version of this software would have incurred a minimum cost of Rs 150,000 per machine [$2250] in terms of [license] fee. Hence, the minimum savings in a year (considering 20,000 machines) is Rs 300 crore [$45M]. It's not the cost saving that matters more, but the fact that the Free Software [license] enables not only teachers and students but also the general public an opportunity to copy, distribute, and share the contents and use it as they wish", [said K. Anwar Sadath, executive director IT@School.]


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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:31AM (2 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:31AM (#476323) Journal

    The Accenture report will, in part say "estimate savings of $[very large number], based on support cost modelling which would be true if removing proprietry software had cost $1000 per computer, per year"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @05:16AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @05:16AM (#476339)

    The Accenture report has already come back.
    What it said was that apps should be OS-agnostic.

    The politicians have attempted to IGNORE the recommendation for which they paid so much.
    A previous submission on this topic said [soylentnews.org]

    It appears to me that the politicians had an answer in mind and wanted to work backwards to get that. They hired MSFT "partner" Accenture to do a study. That report recently came back. What is says is--surprisingly--that all software should work with ANY operating system. They recommended web-based solutions.

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    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday March 08 2017, @06:19AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday March 08 2017, @06:19AM (#476356) Journal

      So.. Office365?

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