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Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part II
sharkey writes "Simple End User Linux (SEUL) has an article about their visit to the ACPE 2002 conference. Microsoft's visit to the conference is outlined, as well as the school districts' attitude towards GPL software and migration issues. An interesting follow-up to an earlier Slashdot article."
God! What's wrong with teachers these days. Out of everyone, you'd think that they'd be the king of geeks. Guess with the kind of salary they pay teachers, compared to the kind IT pays; there are no good technical teachers.
Yea, these teachers sound like nin-com-poops. Just give them a desktop with a few icons pointing to a word processor, web browser, and office suite. What else do they even want to use it for. Oh, and don't forget to put a sticky note on each screen saying, "It's alright the slashes go the other way. It's suppose to!"
Freakin scared of options and complexity. No wonder our public education system sucks so bad. In college at the CS departments, most are like learn UNIX/Linux or fail out the deparment trying. I know that public schools aren't but come on! You click, the abi-word icon. "Click" it you moron. How different is that from Windows. "Click." I said "Click!". Oh, and no don't save that sh*t in fuc*ing doc format. Save it rtf. OMG, an open standard that all word processors can use! Who'd think.
But I guess when they don't see that [start] bar at the bottom. They'll start to panic. What's this foot/gear looking thing? I better not click that. Where's a 1-800 number to call to be on the safe side.
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