On Mon, Feb 02, 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.": > > CAD/CAM for linux:> http://www.haifux.org/lectures/159/> > Orr, there is nothing that even comes close to competing withSolidworks. > Moving students from Solidworks to anything that runs onLinux would be like > removing MS Office and giving them Ed.
I want to be clear on one thing - everything I said I said under the assumption is that we're talking about students whose goal is to learn *software development* - programming, operating systems, and so on. For these students, I explained why I believe that Linux is a great educational device, and also a very useful and practical tool. I never said that people for whom the main use of a computer is to run a specific engineering tool available only for Windows will benefit from Linux, any more than a doctor will benefit if the computer he types patient records on will be switched from Windows with doctor-specific software, to Linux with Emacs. Sure, even students whose main needs are programming have secondary needs like viewing movies (of lectures? really? :-)), reading Internet sites, and writing documents, and these needs should be met, and there is no reason for Linux not to be able to. But students that have a completely different main need? Students whose basic premise is that only one specific Windows-only software can meet that need? Well, sorry, Linux is not for you. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Feb 3 2009, 9 Shevat 5769 [email protected] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx] http://nadav.harel.org.il |sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
