Becta awards Open Source schools project
The Open Source community is apparently 'up in arms' following Becta's decision to award a £270K Open Source project contract to AlphaPlus Consultancy. This follows previous work with Becta on e-learning vocabularies. Mark Taylor of Sirius Ltd, a firm that describe themselves as 'The Open Source Experts (TM)' has attacked the decision and is clearly angry at the contract being awarded to what he sees as "Becta's friends". The rights and wrongs of the Becta contract award aside, education does need to embrace open source! Open Source is an opportunity for education with too much potential to let it pass. I have personally seen the impact it has had on French education where it is very widely used and distributed.
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