it's practical to use OSS!

Due to schools' scarcity of budget and resources, it is practical to engage in using OSS(Open Source Softwares). It may seem that it is a form of stealing/plagiarism but the thought of having these softwares for educational purposes might be as well a good thing especially to universities with limited-funds like ours.

I think our university should greatly take part in using these softwares. For it cost less and mostly it is free; and it can be of so much help in a way that many would be able to gain more learnings and be able to be more up-to-date to the latest computing softwares and applications.

Our school can adopt to this idea through: thorough elaboration of the concept of accessing this kind of applications to students, faculty and staff; educating the students,etc the right ways and methods of utilizing these softwares; and emphasizing the limitations on taking advantage on these stuffs.

Here as follows are articles that discussed related issues about the topic:

http://www.cjlt.ca/content/vol31.1/hepburn.html
http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/papers/open_source.pdf
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8752422509.html