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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Why do schools waste money on IT?</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 8th July 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>In the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project, we have realised that one
  26 of the major blockers for the project success is the purchasing skills
  27 in schools and municipalities.  We provide what the happy users of
  28 Debian Edu / Skolelinux say they need and to a lower cost than the
  29 alternatives, and yet so few schools decide to use our solution.  I
  30 was pleased to discover the same observation done by mySociety and Tom
  31 Steinberg in his blog post
  32 "<a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2012/06/19/can-you-recognize-the-million-pound-chair/">Can
  33 you recognize the million pound chair?</a>".  Read it and weep for the
  34 spending of your tax money.</p>
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  36 <p>Of course there are other factors involved as well, like our
  37 projects bad marketing skills and the Linux community fragmentation
  38 causing worry with the people on the outside, so we as a project need
  39 to keep working hard to gain users, but it is a up-hill battle when
  40 public decision makers are unable to understand computer system
  41 purchases.</p>
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  44       <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.</div>
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