__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 04 March 2007 01:55 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> 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
>
> It's interesting to see how this has worked - the Universities, god
> bless them, have continued to teach real computing, in spite of
> everything Microsoft have done to prevent them from teaching anything
> other than Microsoft. A few years has expired, and we now have an
> upcoming generation of graduates with knowledge of linux, free software,
> and computing in a more general sense than just pointing and clicking.
> From this has emerged the wonderful pincer movement of us ageing
> computer guys linking up with the new generation of graduates, and
> squeezing out the technically incompetent of all ages, and the
> generation of windows types in between.
>
> The result? Teachers start using thin clients, OpenOffice.org, linux,
> and so on. There's no magic here, just good software which does what it
> says on the tin.
Would you believe that my brother's CS curriculum in high school included ASP
.Net? They were not even given choice. Back when I was in school it was
Pascal. Someone's pockets are surely being filled... or someone's having
free lunch.
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