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Re: [LUG] FLOSS in schools

 

On 5 Feb 2008, at 09:20, Paul Sutton wrote:

> Tom Potts wrote:
>> http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196604987
>>
>> Never catch on here though....
>> Tom te tom te tom
>>
>>
>>
> We are always behind the rest of the world,   thing is by time we
> eventually catch up the world has moved on.
>
> I want to see more people who want Linux skills to advertise,  to the
> community,  there are people like me who want to learn and help,  but
> more importantly understand that free software is not just free as in
> cost,   something that commercial companies still can't grasp even
> though its a pretty easy concept,  freedom.
>
> do you want people with just OSS skills, or people with the skills and
> who care about what it all means, the latter is important in away
>
> Paul

Not always, Paul. After all Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the  
jet engine,was English., as were many important inventors. It can  
appear so today because in the *)s we seemed to give up on  
engineering, largely.

Clare

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