Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Richard Smedley <richard.smedley03@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Sorry - that was subtle sarcasm at the person who commissioned the article. As he isn't subscribed to the list, perhaps I should have begun the sentence "my commission demands that I write about...."
I see. Well, he isn't missing much by not being here; if he has asked someone else to write this up. If he was that interested he would have done so already, I'm sure.
Commissioning editors don't commission an article only to research it themselves. They will be judging the sort of articles readers want from their postbag.
It just seems a rather specific topic as opposed to the usual rabble most linux magazines print such as "Move Player of the Week" sort of thing. I can well imagine _some_ people might find Linux in education interesting, but I wouldn't have thought the minutiae interested them as much as to say: "Yes, Linux is being used (to an extent) in some schools".
This isn't the first time LXF has covered the topic. It has done so at least once in the past 6 months (some members of this list / SchoolForge-UK were interviewed) and did so in a previous article by Richard in its Linux Pro supplement. If your view of Linux magazines is that they are all "Move [sic] Player of the Week" articles, then you obviously haven't read any of them for some time. In addition to the more run-of-the-mill group roundups, reviews and news, there are tutorials, interviews and discussion articles, as well as run-downs on new technologies (like SOLID). If this isn't heavyweight enough for you, then the more indepth and even philosophical articles of Linux User & Developer might be more your cup of tea. Tony