Reading all this one thing comes to my mind: the world is not the same all over the world. Same applies to your assessments of school decisions, families and the Linux/WIndows issue.
Over here the public office of a state controlls what computers and operating systems are used in schools, money is not a criteria there. It is, of course, in the sense that many schools can not have computers at all or just 10 machines for a school of 500 students. Ah, yes, I'm talking about Germany, not somewhere in central Africa. The public office makes deals with Microsoft (sometimes Mr. Gates himself came to visit before a new contract was signed), the largest local t-com provider sponsors the internet access and the schools have no say in that. The families: if the kid wants a computer then either Dad buys a new one and the kids get the old, or they buy a new one but mom has no say, it's either Dad or the kids because the parents don't know anything about computers. One of the largest and fastest growing groups of computer users over here are people of age, retired persons who visit computer courses in the neighborhood center (I'm teaching there sometimes). They are a target group also. I think the one you picked (young couples with kids) are those who are the unlikeliest targets - Mom and Dad are working, perhaps with computers, most times with Windows. Kids will learn their computer knowledge in school, not at home because Mom and Dad have no time for that. See, this is quite different to the picture you are painting, and I can imagine that it may be still different in other areas of the world. Therefore picking one target group for a worldwide project like this is the wrong way IMHO. wobo _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
