[geeks] Q: Regarding Linux in K-12 education

[Mike Meredith]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:51:25 -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> The person suggesting this thinks his PhD from Yale and his personal  
> experience working with R and Debian *prove* Linux is superior,  

You might want to invite said person to try teaching R to some pupils
to see what kind of reaction he gets :)

I still remember the stunned look of horror History and Sociology
students had when they came out of their first statistics/minitab/vax
workshop after they realised they had a whole year of it ahead of them!



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  If you play the Windows CD backwards you hear a satanic message.
  But it gets worse... If you play it forwards it installs Windows.