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Linux Makes the Grade in California Schools
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| Beyond slashing the costs of Microsoft licenses, taking giant steps away from
| Windows permits the schools to hold on to their software investments.
| Particularly with LTS versions of Ubuntu, older software "doesn’t stop
| getting supported, the way it does in Windows," he said. Moreover, proposed
| changes to the OS "are examined in light of how they might potentially break
| other things."
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| Also as Erickson sees it, thin client systems can produce additional cost
| savings by providing better energy efficiency than Windows PCs.
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| "Schools these days just don’t have all that much to spend. They can apply
| the money they save from LTSP to other needs, such as books," he observed.
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| "The use of Linux and open source also gives schools a chance to collaborate
| with others, no matter where in the world those schools are located."
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http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/case-studies/16798-linux-makes-the-grade-in-california-schools
Recent:
Aussie anti-piracy battle moves into schools
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| The Australian film and television industry will take its fight against
| piracy into schools courtesy of a newly-formed body, the Intellectual
| Property Awareness Foundation (IPAF).
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/104627,aussie-anti-piracy-battle-moves-into-schools.aspx
Anti-Piracy Groups Target Australia’s Children
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| Several prominent film and TV anti-piracy groups and other industry bodies
| have teamed up to create yet another group, this time with the aim, among
| other things, to teach Australia’s children that copyright infringement is
| wrong.
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-groups-target-australias-children-090602/
Patent brainwashing in elementary schools (???)
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| Alas! The terrible things they're teaching my children in schools these days,
| probably funded by Microsoft's OnMyWay program!
|
| I went to visit my son's class today, and discovered that they had been
| submitting proposals for patents, their teachers clearly no fans of
| innovation.... :-)
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9953254-16.html
Can Microsoft teach tots digital-age virtue?
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| The basis of Redmond's pitch was a small survey they sponsored where nearly
| half of the kids polled said they were unfamiliar with the rules and
| guidelines of using copyrighted media. Microsoft figured tots would be less
| inclined to steal someone's IP if they knew about the alleged consequences.
|
| A lot of digital ink was used to slam Microsoft's scheme. People need Redmond
| telling them about IP rules like they need Pavorotti schooling them about a
| well-balanced diet.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/microsoft_ip_curriculum_look/
Threat Of Jail Time Increases Respect For Copyright, Microsoft Says
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| It's not clear whether Microsoft's statement to teen respondents -- "When you
| do not follow these rules you are open to significant fines and possibly jail
| time" -- is entirely accurate, particularly when teens under the age of 18
| are involved. Emily Berger, an intellectual property fellow at the Electronic
| Frontier Foundation, is skeptical. "I think it's being used as a scare
| tactic," she said. "It's a real stretch of the law to say it's theoretically
| possible."
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http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206503467
Microsoft training youth to love intellectual property
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| Take, for example, its commitment to help teenagers understand the importance
| of respecting intellectual property (read: giving Microsoft more money). It
| just put out a survey showing that when kids understand the rules of
| copyright, they're "less likely to download illegally."
|
| [...]
|
| The one thing it didn't explain to teens is why they should retrofit
| 20th-century copyright laws onto 21st-century realities. Digitization is a
| fact. The web is a fact. Intellectual property is not the same as real,
| tangible property, and should be treated and monetized differently.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9871636-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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