This week I have followed with amazement the comments that have run the web between the defenders of SL, caused by the press release last Monday the Government: The Government signed an agreement with Microsoft to "grow the use of Catalan in the classroom ."
can not be a demagogue, trying to sell what is clearly an economic agreement with liners of nationalist politics. But who is going to believe? Who will believe that behind Hotmail translate into Catalan (Gmail is translated from its origins almost, like Blogger and most Google services without having to sign any agreement) there is a lucrative proposal to purchase and sale of software with its relevant committees.
Because if not ... Why? Why sign an agreement to translate into Catalan MS Office, or the Explorer, if for years that the Open Office, Firefox and many other programs can be found SL FREE in the language of Carles Riba and Pompeu Fabra.
not understand ... or understood too well. In Catalunya we are used to pay for everything, whether complaining. We pay for most roads, for most services. Municipal taxes are "requeteabusivos" (my family Málaga IBI pay for their floor of the same features as mine ... almost 8 times less! And so on.
Y this will be applied to education, of course. If the budget for computers and ICT equipment in each center must
xit s cost of each license of Windows 7 (traducidísimo Catalan) and MS Office, plus other proprietary programs that the Department be good enough to provide centers, it is obvious that we will have less money for the hardware ... Right? Defender SL use in school and in society in general makes you look a lot like Don Quixote fighting the giants. You think that makes for a good cause, leaving all their effort and goodwill, while the rest of society sees you as being eccentric, a little crazy, anachronistic.
But what if the windmills become giants?
Photo Credit: http://sergiocabanillas.blogspot.com/2007/08/don-quijote-contra-los-molinos.html
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