I think that today with the hard economical state
there are poor schools which hardly have money for computers
and would be more than happy for "free" programs.
crossover office runs MSoffice with hebrew support preety well
and they would have access to better and nicer GUI programs which they
can't afford on windows. (like think how much vc++ cost and how much
using eclips or adjuta costs).
as for having the same OS in school and in home.. well I don't believe its
true for example they use programs of matach or novell which kids doesn't
have at home.
not mention most kids doesn't have the money to have the same OS they
either get it ileagaly or use things like old win95 while schools uses
win2k or XP or whatever.
but if you been there already you can tell me which people I should talk
to and what were the arguments they used not to use linux.
thanks
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> Hi Ely,
> You are wasting your time. Israeli K12 has no use for Linux. Been there,
> done that. If the kids don't have the same OS at school as at home then
> forget it. If it doesn't run MS Word, then forget it.
> Regards,
>
> - yba
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> > I wanted to raise a discussion about the intergation of linux on schools
> > and kindergardens around israel.
> > there are few questions that come to mind.
> >
> > 1)What programs does schools/kindergarden uses?
> > 2)How many of them already use linux?
> > 3)What can linux offer that windows can't?
> > 4)What kind of problems might they get into while trying to move to linux?
> > 5)Where are the places that linux might be most needed?
> > 6)Does matach does programs which can't be replaced by opensourced
> > programs?
> >
> > 7) any other idea someone might have on how to approch it.
> >
> > Ely Levy
> > System group
> > Hebrew University
> > Jerusalem Israel
> >
> >
> >
> >
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