[plug] Linux ideology (was: EduBDO/SIGfest)

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Mon May 26 20:34:25 WST 2003


On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 10:40, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Sun, 25 May 2003 22:00, Chris Caston wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 11:56, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >> The bottom line is that the children going through high school now
> >> will be starting to hit decision-maker territory in less than a
> >> decade. If all they've seen, all they're used to is Borgware,
> >> they're not going to be making decisions anything like as
> >> favourable to you and your interests and industry as they would
> >> otherwise.
> 
> > Let's show the benefits to education that open source software has.
> > I'd rather not go after high schools just because we have the
> > superior ideology and want the world to be using Linux.
> 
> I don't think you `get it'. Read on carefully before taking umbrage.
> 


Leon,

Thanks. I for one would like to see more Linux desktops at central TAFE.

regards,

Chris Caston




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