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@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@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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