Re: [Visualpython-users] High School Network Security

[Jon S. <js...@di...>]

Show them this article: 
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5704750.html?tag=nl.e589
Firefox may be one open-source app they actually recognize....

IBM backs Firefox in-house
By Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: May 12, 2005, 9:00 PM PT
IBM is encouraging its employees to use Firefox, aiding the open-source 
Web browser's quest to chip away at Microsoft's Internet Explorer...



> FRANCESCO NOSCHESE wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am a high school physics teacher who is planning post-AP exam 
>> student projects using VPython.  However, my school refuses to allow 
>> Python and VPython to be installed on the school's network because it 
>> is open source.
>>
>> Here's the reply from the technology coodinator at my school:
>>
>> "Our technology team discussed your request to install VPython on the 
>> network/lab at our May 4th meeting and all agreed that it is not good 
>> practice to install open source software on the school computer 
>> systems.  We have conferred with LHRIC and a random sampling of other 
>> districts and all agree it is not in the district's best interest to 
>> do so, even thought there is no doubt your intended goal is worthy."
>>
> I wonder if there is a commuincation gap.  You said "open source".  
> Perhaps what they *heard* was "freeware".
>
> Or an understanding gap:  open source = freeware.
>
> If so, one would hope that a delicately worded education would solve 
> the problem.  But we've all run into IT people who enjoy a rather 
> feudal approach to management.  Keep us posted with details.  Perhaps 
> we can help make your argument.
>
>
>
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