Why should we teach students Linux??

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007, Gilles Germon wrote:
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>>Ok, but don't you guys have some fact I can build a case with?? 
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>Not really Linux oriented, rather Open Source, but interesting :
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>http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf

One quote I like is ``Avoid lifelong vendor lock-in in educationaly systems
by teaching students skills not specific applications; encourage
participation in FLOSS-like communities''.

When I started working computers over 40 years ago, IBM made sure that
their main frames were available to colleges and universities, knowing very
well that people tend to use what they know.  Microsoft has learned this
lesson well.

My opinion of Microsoft today is much the same as my opinion of IBM then.
They both provided mediocre to inferior systems that were expensive to keep
running, and marketed through FUD.  Most of my main frame experience was on
Burroughs Large and Medium systems which ran circles around similarly
prices IBM iron.

Bill
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