How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories
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| MIT provides just one of the 10 open source educational success
| stories detailed below. Open source and open access resources have
| changed how colleges, organizations, instructors, and prospective
| students use software, operating systems and online documents for
| educational purposes. And, in most cases, each success story also
| has served as a springboard to create more open source projects.
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http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories
http://tinyurl.com/36y36l
Related:
Tamil Nadu Shutting the Door On Microsoft
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| "The managing director of the IT procurement, consulting, and training
| agency for the Tamil Nadu government describes the reasons why he has
| chosen OSS, and also how he dealt with Microsoft executives."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/03/0226229&from=rss
Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district
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| By this summer, all 5,000 students and 250 teachers will be working
| off of a Linux-based thin client running OpenOffice.org, and the
| majority of the district's servers will be running Novell SUSE
| Linux Enterprise Server.
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http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.html
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