[kictanet] Is SA Department of Education taking a reasonble step?

[Ngigi Waithaka]

The same African curse.

You have a homegrown OS of International recognition, Ubuntu, for free, but
you want to spend money to acquire another solution, developed in another
country at a cost!

Simple, there is no money to be made if you recommend Ubuntu so you
recommend that which will give you the 'cut'!

On the other hand Delphi is a super platform and land language to start-off
with, clean and teaches the art of programming quite elegantly.

Regards


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:

> That is a tragedy for South Africa. Locking to MS Office suite, and
> Windows for that matter is anti-competition and backwards. It's a
> shame for a country that produced the world renown Ubuntu Linux.
>
> For Delphi, it's not as bad since what we need is kids introduced to
> programming concepts. Pascal like code is very good for beginners for
> it's English like notation is less abstract. But the students should
> be able to branch out to more robust and modern languages. I wonder
> what computer language is predominant in Kenyan Secondary School
> certificate.
>
> On 10/10/2013, Brian Ngure <brian.ngure at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just read this story on Slashdot. Link:
> >
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/09/1648218/south-african-education-department-bans-free-and-open-source-software
> >
> > One comment that caught my eye:
> > http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4319437&cid=45083711
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:20 PM, John Kariuki <
> > ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Here is an article talking about the South African department of
> >> education
> >> banning the use of Open Source software in schools.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.webaddict.co.za/2013/10/09/south-africa-education-department-bans-open-source-software/
> >>
> >>
> >> John Kariuki
> >>
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