Micoshaft Asstroturfer suzie.linux@xxxxxxxxx socked on behalf of big
crocporation:
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> A year with Linux on the desktop
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>> | The kids have been using Linux for years, so they're happy penguins.
>> | I'm a
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> Wait until junior brings home SAT prep software from school.
> LSAT prep software from College.
> Mcat software.
> Applications from colleges that require *doc format. Are you REALLY
> going to trust Openoffice translating things correctly?
> I wouldn't.
> Not a chance, it's just too important to trust a free wannabe program
> like OpenOffice to translate properly to MSoffice which 99 out of 100
> is what the admissions dept is running.
You forgot EDUCATION IS FREE.
So what you are really saying is that schools should ban all
proprietory software because like education being free
it is the governments job that all software should be mandated
to be free. Parenting is all about sharing software and code.
Proprietory stuff in schools creates divides whereas GPL'd
code makes sharing easy.
Look here for hundreds of free LiveCDs that are free
with source code.
http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com
> Teach your children something they can actually use to interface with
> the rest of the population instead of forcing them to use a system
> that is incompatible with 99 percent of the rest of the earth.
That would be free source code and free operating system
like Linux and the 20,000+ educational, scientific and other
types of seriously useful commercially supported software.
Without free source code and free software mandated in schools
children would be forced down the pirating route early in
their life with proprietory software.
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