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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>
>>>>> Free or open source for students?
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>>>>>| Recent discussions on which software package to
>>>>>| be incorporated in the free laptops to be
>>>>>| distributed to students this year in Tamil Nadu have
>>>>>| highlighted the attempts across the country to promote
>>>>>| the use of Free and Open Source Software in education and
>>>>>| other fields.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/internet/article2137184.ece
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>>>> The stack of free software for school education is so huge that it
>>>> does not need a learning management system or specially designed
>>>> tools for building it, say experts.
>>>
>>>
>>> That is just an utterly bruising and astonishing
>>> statement for anyone from a 'third world facility'
>>> to be imposing on others reading the article.
>>>
>>> It is a sign of the times and what utter power house
>>> Linux is in the hands of those who are able to better use it.
>>>
>>> The article also said:
>>>
>>> "Training of teachers can go on simultaneously, says Mr. Anvar, recalling
>>> his experience of training more than 10,000 teachers in a month through
>>> videoconferencing facilitated by the open source environment."
>>>
>>> So Linux and open source again shows what utter power house it is in the
>>> hands of those better able to use it, as they use to self booting others
>>> through its built in features.
>>>
>>> Defending Linux and open source is defending livelihood for these
>>> budding teachers and engineers.
>>
>> It also improves job prospects for the students.
>
>
> Several years back, I tried to hire a couple of Linux engineers in India.
> They all got carted off to Bangalore before they even
> finished their degrees. Never even made it to interview after responding
> to ads paper. Linux engineers are gold dust in India.
>
> China is churning them out by the hundreds of thousands, but I'm
> told none of them are available there either.
>
> Europe is paying $100 per hour for Linux engineers so that leaves
> Eastern Europe as the only viable source for more Linux engineers.
Recently (while I was absent from COLA), there were loads of articles about demand for Linux
skills in jobs. It's truly necessary.
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