[ILUG] Typical - Schools / vendor lockin.

[Cian Brennan]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:00:40PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 09 Apr 2008, David Coallier wrote:
> 
> > I'd be happy to help anyone with this project. This is definitely
> > something we have to focus on at some point and "help" the schools
> > understanding that Linux is a good learning tool.
> 
> It is?  Please explain how/why.
> 
> Not that I completely disagree but apart from cost nobody in this thread
> has yet given a good reason why schools should really want to use OSS.  In
> the hands of a teacher with no linux experience (99% of teachers), I
> suspect linux is not at all a good learning tool.  This entire thread is
> predicated around the notion that schools should use linux and would be
> better off doing so, but nobody has yet given a coherent set of reasons why
> that is so.
> 
> Perhaps constructing this coherent argument is the first thing you should
> do in the wiki.  I know I'm far from convinced at this point and would be
> interested to learn from it.
> 
> Gavin
> 
In my experience, teachers have little knowledge of windows either. The average
teacher(much like the average person) knows what buttons to press in what
order. Getting that on linux is trivally easy

> 
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