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The solution then is not to teach OpenOffice, or MS Office, or Wordperfect, or any other software package. The solution is to educate these children (or adults for that matter) not to rely on specific steps in learning, but to rely on CONCEPTS. Every package is really pretty much the same. If you master one word processor, then you have really mastered them all. The differences are really negligable. This conceptual learning can be performed on free software as well as it can be on non-free, at a significantly lower cost. Now I hear you say, "But then we must retrain". Bollocks. These teachers, for the most part, have no real computer training anyway. Besides, once a GNU/Linux system is set-up, the differences in interaction, or how to perform foo, are practically nil. Any argument for non-free software, except for the arguments presented by those with a vested interest in the aging, propritart business model, are easily shot down.

My own ramblings,

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