Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Challenge Me Please!

Why isn't there somebody out there challenging the basic notion of having to pay high prices for administrative school software? It seems to me that with the budgetary pressures facing school districts, that some company will surface and provide quality open source software that can be supported and maintained for far less than the commercial alternatives. Why isn't it happening?

Am I way off base? Somebody challenge me and let's get a useful debate going on how we shift K-12 to an open source community software industry. Education is a collaborative community anyway on many other things. Why not open source software?

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