Diego Iastrubni wrote on 2003-06-04: > I see you have a techunix.technion.ac.il address, so I would guess that you > are from the Technion. May I ask you one thing: > Why has the technion started using linux so widely? > Why other "schools" have not done so? > I meant "K12" schools, not universities. The latter can handle themselves :-). While they still use a lot of windows, they tend to have at least *some* unix, the students learn unix, the unix more and more frequently happens to be linux, universities tend to host FOSS mirrors, some of the students are always hackers that actually write FOSS and they tend to form linux clubs, etc...
K12 schools OTOH are currently M$-only (does anybody know of any school in israel to use linux or any FOSS at all?). And that should not be so. > I can give you one example: money. Lets say you need to have s/w for about 200 > desktops and about 15 servers. How much money will it cost using billware? > Now, if that institute makes a deal with MS, they can lower the prices by a > great factor, and in exchange, the institute will teach some courses related > to billware only. [1] In this case billie will also make the "hishtalmuiot" > for the teachers, and making discounts on the books (if needed). > > Now the money that will be donated by billie, can be invested elswhere, not > only in computers. [2] > > They will also have a good reputation, since "they work directly" with billie, > and thus it's students will know better the subjects used "in the real > world", and thus giving "a good reputation" to that school. > > [1] http://www.whatsup.org.il/article.php?sid=800 > [2] http://www.whatsup.org.il/article.php?sid=1426 > This all mostly relates to universites. K12 schools are also prone to this but the money also plays the other way here because they tend to have less of it than universities. > If linux is ever to get into the education system, much more is needed. Since > even if the minister of education will like the proposal for a training > program, not all schools will like it, then can do some tricks for not > actually teaching that stuff. > Of course. But with gratis software they might like it. Esp. considering the economic situation ;-). -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Three Laws of Copy-Protechnics: http://www.technion.ac.il/~cben/threelaws.html ================================================================= 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]
