Re: tlug: Re: Linux taking over the globe?

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

> > If students are unable to learn to use Linux, they are also
> > unfit for taking courses at a university. In  other words, they
> > have nothing lost there and should be relegated to work they are
> > fit for, e.g. sweeping streets.
> 
> Should students really learn to use Linux, as long as they
> use computers just as a tool for wordprocessing and
> calculating? Somewhere in the bibel a society is compared to

Absolutely. If they do any serious use of computers for that
they will sooner or later have to write some sort of programs to
do some tasks. That should be easy and not requiring
professional programmer skills, on the other hand offer
professional power. So what ? Under Linux they have dozens of
programming systems to suit their needs, scripting languages,
all sorts of HLL's etc. - and all that for free ! It is
difficult to do the same under Windows, and impossible for the
same price. Price is important for a university - instead of
wasting big bucks on M$ crap it is better to pump the big bucks
in improving research and teaching.

In other words: Learning Linux NOW is a good investment into the
future - the times are at hand when Windows will be a case for
historians only an unixoid OS's are mainstream. And in the end
it save time and money. So the initial learning effort is well
spent. 

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