The reason I am so interested in the idea of community involvement on this topic os simple. Kids from wealthy suburbanite parents probably already have access (in one way or another) to computers. Hence, although their schools may be more capable of implementing some of our ideas because they have the funding and the people with the necessary know-how, it goes to the kids who benefit the least, because they already had access to computers. In contrast, the poor schools who will usually lack teachers who are comfortable with computers and have little funding teach the kids who can benefit the most. This applies for rural schools every bit as much as it does for urban schools. Heck, I'll admit it, since the goal of much of the Linux community is to make KDE and GNOME just as easy to use as windows, I don't even see a huge educational benefit to SuSE over Windows. The licensing and cost are the big benefits to linux for the schools.
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Andrew Choens