Came upon this interesting article on slashdot.org

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/2153223

and among the comments found this


by WPIDalamar (122110)

on Tuesday June 12 2007, @09:33PM (#19485415)
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"I
believe there is a place for open source and commercial software in
schools. I better since I work for a commercial Educational software
publisher.

I'd love to have our stuff run on Open Source
platforms, but we currently only release for Windows/OSX. We don't
produce for OS platforms for the simple reason that nobody asks for it.
Ever. I talk to our sales guys from time to time. I ask them if people
ask for Linux versions. The answer is always no.

So Educators,
administrators, curriculum people, make sure to ask your software
vendors for versions that run on open platforms. You'll probably get a
"no". But keep asking. It's not that they can't, they just don't know
you want it."


Exactly one of my points
And, another theory of mine (which applies to how he mentions "they will prob say no") is this... One voice often goes unnoticed... but a thousand voices cannot be ignored.

People emailing to request individually does no good... it takes well constructed polls and requests of many to get action.