[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux in school

[terry]

Also See:
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.html
"Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district"
And:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6349
"Linux from Kindergarten to High School"
By Michael Surran

On 4/1/07, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: http://edge-op.org/grouch/schools.html
>
> "It is indeed a strange world when educators need to be convinced that
> sharing information, as opposed to concealing information, is a good
> thing. The advances in all of the arts and sciences, indeed the sum
> total of human knowledge, is the result of the open sharing of ideas,
> theories, studies and research.  Yet throughout many school systems,
> the software in use on computers is closed and locked, making
> educators partners in the censorship of the foundational information
> of this new age. This software not only seeks to obscure how it works,
> but it also entraps the users' data within closed, proprietary formats
> which change on the whim of the vendor and which are protected by the
> bludgeon of the End User License Agreement. This entrapment of data is
> a strong, punitive incentive to purchase the latest version of the
> software, regardless of whether it suits the educational purposes
> better, thereby siphoning more of the school's limited resources away
> from the school's primary purpose. The use of such closed software in
> education may be justified only where no suitable open source solution
> exists..."
> ... read on:  http://edge-op.org/grouch/schools.html
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> Also:
> "Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district"
>
> "By this summer, all 5,000 students and 250 teachers will be working
> off of a Linux-based thin client running OpenOffice.org, and the
> majority of the district's servers will be running Novell SUSE Linux
> Enterprise Server."
>
> See:
> http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.html
>
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