On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Uri Bruck wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > > > > > I think we should try and pass legislation that schools will be forbidden > > to require the students to purchase closed software to submit their > > schoolwork. > How is that different than requiring students to buy a certain textbook? > (In Haifa we rarely did that. Most textbooks were loaned to us, but I > believe in most of the country high school students are still required to > buy them, and sometimes they are required to buy a specific edition)
In a way it does and in another way it doesn't, but the biggest 2 diffrances I see is that school books won't make you chose one format or company later in life, and most important in school books you sometimes don't have choise, on the other hand in computer field the choise is here. anyhow once you go to online learning and matach like programs you would need less and less books which would solve that problem as well;) ely ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
