why no Linux for NSW high school laptops?
It comes as both a surprise and not a surprise that the New South Wales (NSW) state government chose a "safe bet" of Lenovo and Microsoft to supply many thousands of taxpayer-funded laptops to secondary school students. Was Linux ever on the short list?
An announcement was made this week that hardware vendor Lenovo and old faithful Microsoft got the deal to fulfil Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2007 pre-election promise to give away hundreds of thousands of laptops.
It has been a trouble-ridden path getting to this point and the turmoil demonstrates a lack of thought, planning and costing in all the election period rhetoric.
First, the states – who administer secondary education in Australia, not the federal government – wanted to know just how much the feds were putting in. They rightly pointed out a successful mass-scale deployment isn’t just a matter of buying a bunch of machines. Schools needed network infrastructure upgrades to cope, people actually had to distribute the machine and most certainly someone is going to have to fix them when things go wrong.
Obviously, state leaders didn’t want to have their budgets go into deficit to service an election promise that wasn’t theirs.
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