Open Source In Public K-12 Schools?

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 27, 2009 @04:35AM from the starting-'em-early dept.

MissMachine writes "I'm a computer science major who has been recently getting involved in local grassroots politics in my county and state. I've been discussing the idea with some of my state legislatures of submitting a couple of resolutions, opening up to the idea of switching to open source software in our state's K-12 schools. I'm looking for more information/literature about this topic, open source solutions in public K-12 education, pros and cons, studies that prove or disprove many of the assumptions of open source and linux in public schools. Any help in this field?"

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English versus metric by az-saguaro · 2009-02-27 05:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This reminds me of English versus metric, how most of the world uses metric measures, whereas in the US (and elsewhere?), feet, inches, quarts, and pounds persist. Sounds like now might be a good time for MS to lock up rights to the english measurement systems, convert all Windows coding to those standards, and start charging activation fees to use a foot-long ruler . . . keeping unilateralism alive and well.