What's funny here too is that the community is ahead of the game on this - but getting people to sign off on it is a completely different story.
Thomas A Webb wrote: > We've had Linux on our desktops for over a year now. The biggest issue > seems to be from the computer services support groups in school systems. > > There is a general belief in that community that commercial > [Microsoft] software is the "safe" choice, and that students/staff are > incapable of adapting to any other environment. I haven't gotten that > impression from the kids that use our stuff, or the teachers for that > matter. Just the tech-staff. > > Considering the budget dollars involved, that looks to me to be a > significant issue that needs to be addressed by educators, not > tech-staff. There are other reasons for the divide besides dollars, > but dollars are a big piece of it. > > > > Phil Shapiro wrote: > >> >> >> Old computers good as new in Linux labs >> >> September 16, 2004 >> >> By Treena Shapiro >> Advertiser Education Writer > -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxgazette.com http://www.a42.com http://www.worldchanging.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business."— Henry Ford _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
