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| I was just told a good-news story about a Toronto area high school
| computer science teacher who has been using the Linux operating
| system exclusively in his classroom for the past 5 years.
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| The bad-news part of the story is that the school recently dismantled
| the already running Linux lab and told the teacher that he *must* only
| teach Microsoft software. Microsoft jealously guards the source code to
| their software, disallowing teachers and students from studying and
| improving the software. This is like disallowing English students from
| reading or building upon existing literature. While Microsoft software
| might be of limited use for teaching word processing, it is quite
| inappropriate for teaching computer science. Microsoft software is
| also funded by royalty-based business models which extract considerable
| amounts of money from provincial budgets, while FLOSS allows the
| educational sector to collaborate with all sectors to create software
| that is then distributed at a marginal cost of zero.
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