Try going to SCO and buy the Linux from them. Not just their "licence", the whole damn thing they claim to own.
Software is not sold, just licenced to use (remember GPL?) so if copy protection is something author wants to have - it is a _part_ of the software itself. If you go for Open Source only, it's less than likely that any OS sw will use copy protection.
Bitching righteously is the sam thing as srtiking preemptivly.
I do develop edu software in a small country in SE Europe, along with a few friends who also think this is important, and we are good at that. We are doing it for a five years now and we keep track of the childern, and we give the data to any scientist who ask us. We have no money to order resarch, and we certanly do not influence the results. I do prefer argumented critics over generic bravo's.
We have now about 20.000 users, and we keep track of about one in a five (it's voluntary choice of the user). Our software is for kids 3 to 8 years old, and it is designed to help learning math, literacy, safety in traffic, arts etc (no this is not a promo, I'm trying to keep the product anonymous as possible). With design we did not follow official school curriculum, we covered what we considered important and we tried to make it simple and easy to understand and - most important - fun for kids.
This approach was made because I do strongly belive that software is just a tool that should be used by educator (teacher, parent, whoever) to transfer the knowlwdge. Yes, we had kids using computers before they knew how to read - and used them to learn how to read. But again, it's just a tool - if one suposed to use it don't use it right, it won't work.
The real problem is, until September only one school was allowed (by our Ministry of education) to use our software (yes, most of our users are home users). Also they have spent about 5.5 million US$ on hardware for classrooms in elementary shools (including Windows and MS Office) and exactly 0.0 US$ on edu software. We do not fit in because we have results, and they face elections...
To keep long stroy short, computers (even with software:-) in schools are mostly useless because this requires complete change of the system. On the other hand, computers and software as tools for education are essential as any other tool, if used right.
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Try going to SCO and buy the Linux from them. Not just their "licence", the whole damn thing they claim to own.
Software is not sold, just licenced to use (remember GPL?) so if copy protection is something author wants to have - it is a _part_ of the software itself. If you go for Open Source only, it's less than likely that any OS sw will use copy protection.
Bitching righteously is the sam thing as srtiking preemptivly.
If that's a planet start calling it Rupert, please...
Hit the water on Mars first...
I do develop edu software in a small country in SE Europe, along with a few friends who also think this is important, and we are good at that. We are doing it for a five years now and we keep track of the childern, and we give the data to any scientist who ask us. We have no money to order resarch, and we certanly do not influence the results. I do prefer argumented critics over generic bravo's.
:-) in schools are mostly useless because this requires complete change of the system. On the other hand, computers and software as tools for education are essential as any other tool, if used right.
We have now about 20.000 users, and we keep track of about one in a five (it's voluntary choice of the user). Our software is for kids 3 to 8 years old, and it is designed to help learning math, literacy, safety in traffic, arts etc (no this is not a promo, I'm trying to keep the product anonymous as possible). With design we did not follow official school curriculum, we covered what we considered important and we tried to make it simple and easy to understand and - most important - fun for kids.
This approach was made because I do strongly belive that software is just a tool that should be used by educator (teacher, parent, whoever) to transfer the knowlwdge. Yes, we had kids using computers before they knew how to read - and used them to learn how to read. But again, it's just a tool - if one suposed to use it don't use it right, it won't work.
The real problem is, until September only one school was allowed (by our Ministry of education) to use our software (yes, most of our users are home users). Also they have spent about 5.5 million US$ on hardware for classrooms in elementary shools (including Windows and MS Office) and exactly 0.0 US$ on edu software. We do not fit in because we have results, and they face elections...
To keep long stroy short, computers (even with software