Re: [PLUG] Community Service Project (Devil's advocate)

[Magnus <chrish@trilug.org>]

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 05:36 PM, MITCHELL MALTENPORT wrote:

> The goal is to teach them how computers work and how they can be used.
>
> Linux would be better for letting these kids look "under the hood" and
> observe what the computer is doing at any moment.

Further, it is a platform that provides a more complete selection of 
software that can be legally used without paying out the nose for 
license fees.

Going down the Windows path, you have to first buy a Windows license 
for those machines (read the EULA if you think you can just reload them 
with Win98 even if that's what they came with) and in order to stick to 
the goal of learning how things work in the Windows world you need MS 
Office which will cost several times more than the full value of the 
machine.  IMHO anyone who wants to go down the Windows path *must* 
learn MS Office to survive.  It is expected of you.

And finally, it is awfully odd to suggest that a Linux users group 
should muster volunteers to load Windows onto a bunch of old PC's.  
Yeah.  Right.  It could happen.

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C. Magnus Hedemark
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