On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:04:55AM +0000, David Bowles wrote:
Why...?
does [it] not give staff more freedonm as they will struggle to use the open source applications.
I agree that many teachers of ICT (and hence their students) would have considerable difficulty transferring their existing ICT skills to alternative open-source applications. But why? Is this an immutable
More to the point why is it an issue when it comes to transfering to any OSS applications, but not considered an issue when moving from one proprietary application to another. Even in cases where there is a much greater difference between two proprietary applications than between a proprietary and an open source application.
fundamental characteristic of the learning process involved in mastering new applications? I think not.
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