http://austinist.com/2008/12/11/extra_extra_178.php All comments for Extra Extra en-us 2009 Adam S Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:41:20 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss aschragin@gmail.com aschragin@gmail.com 60 http://austinist.com/2008/12/11/extra_extra_178.php#comment-1540101 http://austinist.com/2008/12/11/extra_extra_178.php#comment-1540101 Comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:28:15 -0600 <p>You need a bit more than "He apologized" At least he admits he was wrong, and a good chunk of your austinist linux zealots were wrong as well. from his blog: "I have contacted the technology department of AISD and have discovered it has a rich technology environment that uses open source software in all aspects of instruction, operation, and administration. The District has over 36000 desktop and laptop computers. While about 24000 of those computers run some version of Windows - AISD is anything but a Windows shop. Their current standard teacher/student image includes both Open Office and Firefox on all Windows computers; and recently has added Open Office to the Apple OS image. Other open source software on both images include audacity and lame, and other free software such as google earth, iTunes, Adobe and many plug-ins. They also are members of the world community grid; their 36000 computers providing many hours of spare processing time (during the work day) to organizations trying to solve major world problems such as energy, cancer, and AIDS. Additionally, they are running more than 100 Linux servers. Other Open Source and Free software AISD uses include: apache for web servers samba for file sharing nagios for server monitoring mySQL and postgreSQL for some databases sendmail for email services ISC DHCP and bind for DHCP services moodle for course management tomcat and jboss for web based applications perl and php to build in-house applications As an Austin citizen I am proud to see that AISD is a solid supporter of the open source community and is not blindly following a Microsoft centric architecture. In fact because they are reasonably agnostic they make an overt attempt to find applications that are multi platform and save money. Also, it is not unreasonable that an organization with approximately 6000 teachers representing a cross section of America with many different teaching specialties, that there will be some individuals that are not totally aware of current technology trends."</p> http://austinist.com/2008/12/11/extra_extra_178.php#comment-1539914 http://austinist.com/2008/12/11/extra_extra_178.php#comment-1539914 Comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:53:15 -0600 <p>Only in America would one seek legal action against someone else when it was their own ignorance that brought on the situation.</p>