[ubuntu-marketing] Why should we teach students Linux??

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 09:56 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Thursday 08 March 2007 17:46, James McDonald wrote:
> > Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > I fully agree. My daughter (now 13) only knows OpenOffice, Mozilla, and
> > > (don't call social services) GIMP. She is happy in this.
> >
> > I'm still migrating my wife... I am getting there slowly :) It would
> > help if she had a stable Linux platform to use... My box is always
> > "under construction" (with the annoying rotating gif and all).
> 
> My wife gave up on me.  I wish I could get her to use the computer, but she 
> said that it looked different every time she got on.  My advice, having 
> suffered the loss of her interest, is to give her a consistent look and feel.  
> Period.  Whatever it takes.

True, true. You are a very wise man! <grins> Ric
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