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How schools can get free software

Publication:BBC NewsDate:Jul 07 2005

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The UK government's school computing agency, Becta, has said schools could save costs by switching to what is known as open source software.

In open source software (OSS), the underlying computer code is freely available so users can alter it and publish new versions, to benefit the community.




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