On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:40:06PM +0100, E Lea wrote:
Thomas Adam wrote:
I am 20 and throughout all my school life (and even now at University), everything we do one computers (or have done), has been centred around Microsoft. We are almost forced to use it, and given no alternative unless we go and look for one.
Bringing school children into IT (as is the government's initiative) means that they should be made aware of Linux,
I disagree. I don't think forcing Linux onto school children is going to
The original complaint is about Microsoft stuff being forced onto school children (and school staff).
help anything. Reducing the problem down to the common Linux advocacy arguement of Windows == Bad, Linux == Good is misguided. For children to be
Probably because they are trying to use the same rules as the Microsoft advocates. Which is along the lines of "Microsoft: Good, !Microsoft: bad."
truely IT aware their awareness needs to be platform independent; and I don't mean teach them all Java. There are so many more platforms out there than Windows and Linux. A lot of people in the Linux world are (and have been for many years) predicting that Windows can't carry on as we know it
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