Correct me if I'm wrong, but Indiana has been slowly moving linux computers into their school systems for a couple of years now, first with Linspire and now with Novell. On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:13 -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
On 8/17/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller@lightlink.com> wrote:
SAN FRANCISCO ___ Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) has stated that thousands of high school students in Indiana will return to class this fall to find something new at their desks -- a Novell(r) Linux Desktop. Novell is helping schools across the state deploy computers built into student desks, starting with 1,600 desktops based on Intel(r) platforms this fall and eventually providing a Linux(r) computer for every student in every high school in the state. Ultimately, more than 300,000 Indiana high school students will have more immediate access to educational resources and increased opportunity for accelerated learning.
Let's just hope a shil from MS doesn't get their claws into a PHB type that has power to make a stink in the school system.. they might kill this deal just like the killed the deal in Cobb county for the iBooks. "The sky is falling because our kids won't be using MSOffice and Windows <ver>!!!!"
I hope this works out. I'd love to have a generation that isn't just about playing games on their PeeCee. Wouldn't that be something. :)
-Ben
-- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."