Here's an interesting article by Temple Grandin that talks briefly about Linux and educating gifted kids in use of computers.
>Temple Grandin has a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois and has designed one third of all of the livestock handling facilities in the United States and in many other countries. Temple is currently an assistant professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University and a frequent lecturer at autism meetings throughout the country. >She also happens to be autistic. http://www.autism.org/temple/genius.html --- >I have been reading, with great satisfaction, the many articles in magazines about Linux free software. People in the business >world are not able to comprehend why the computer people give their work away. I am unable to think about this without >becoming emotional. It is no mystery to me why they download their intellectual ideas into the vast, evolving and continually >improving computer operating system. It is because their thoughts will live forever as part of the "genetic code" of the computer >program. They are putting themselves into the program and their "intellectual DNA" will live forever in cyber-space. As the >program evolves and changes, the code they wrote will probably remain hidden deep within it. It is almost like a living thing that >is continually evolving and improving. For both me and for the programmers that contribute to Linux, we do it because it makes >our lives more meaningful.
