On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 14:38, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> Sascha Beaumont wrote:
> > One thing I forgot to mention is the consideration of applications.
>
> In the (primary) schools I've seen, the teachers don't use "the
> computers" for a lesson, they use "this software package"
[snip]
> This would be a very important issue to address :-) otherwise you're
> going to have to "reeducate" the teachers, and change their lesson
> plans, and they'll be very resistant to that.
And changing a lesson plan is quite an expensive proposition (in time,
if not direct financial cost).
As much as I love Linux, we have to supply the software that people need
to run. In the education sector[1] we just don't have the apps; there is
a similar situation with games[2]. I will cut of my nose just so I can
be free, but I do not ask that of others.
[1] I am excluding educational programing systems for the tertiary
sector (such as Matlab).
[2] Yes, Tux Racer is fun. Yes, UT will run on Linux (out of the box).
Yes, the entire Doom and Quake series runs under Linux. Yes,
Neverwinter Nights runs under Linux. But there are more games that
*don't* run under Linux than do.
--
Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
