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Personally I think that educating children with only one version of anything is a bad idea, forcing a certain way of doing anything will only get a response of rebellion. Furthermore, schools should act in the best intrest of the ones they are educating - and their best interest is too know as much about as much as possible. Exposing students to only one way of doing anything would be doing them much discredit - which is mostly what is being done now as almost all school computers I have seen have been running proprietary software. Yes, "free" software should be present in schools, but keep in mind that "free" will probobly come from a vendor like red hat, where its not at all free (assuming support contracts), but still "open", and able to be tinkered with. Please do not trivialize your own arguments by refering to open source software as free - free implies "free as in beer", I can get plently of "freeware" for windows that comes with no source code, the advantages the open source communtiy has to offer are far more reaching than lunch for nothing.

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