Old Software or Open Source?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 5, 2007 @04:40AM from the just-give-'em-all-slide-rules dept.

Pakled writes "I teach a high school multimedia course. We were scheduled to get new software this year but due to several pointy haired bosses, no software was ordered. The software I have to teach is Flash 5, Dreamweaver 2000, Photoshop 7 and (god help me) Movie Maker. The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts (Komposer, Gimp, etc.)? Is the steep learning curve and slightly less uniform design worth a little student frustration to teach them software written in the past 5 years?"

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Wow shortest Ask Slashdot ever. by notaspunkymonkey · 2007-12-05 04:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Yes, next question?...
1. Re:Wow shortest Ask Slashdot ever. by trainman · 2007-12-05 04:47 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Agreed. This person came to slashdot to ask such a question?
  
  It'd be like asking Larry Ellison, "So, I have this old version of Oracle we use in the classroom, but I want to upgrade to something newer. Tell me about this MySQL thing I keep hearing about...."
  
  Heaven help us if RMS ever gets wind of this article....