Re: [Tuxmath-devel] testers

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Friday 14 September 2001  1:39pm, Samuel Hart wrote:
> Just a quick FYI (from my experience):
>
> Public Schools may have a problem (the paper-work involved in getting
> permission for "non-preapproved" software installed is usually a nightmare
> in school districts) simply because if an individual administrator (or
> teacher, or even simple tech-head) is using the software on a testing
> basis, they may not necessarily have permission to do do.

Also, to add to what I've already said, because there have been soooo many 
legal and financial attacks on schools in the last five years, public schools 
in particular are very paranoid (and rightly so) about installing software 
that isn't "approved" simply because they dont understand the licenses 
involved.

(PS: we have some massive work ahead of ourselves to convince schools that 
not only can they find quality software in the Open-Source/Free-Software 
worlds... but that they can trust the licenses will give them more freedoms 
and less legal worry than the licenses they are familier with ;-)

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