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Story: Linux brings hope to Spain's poorest region

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Well, that sounds like a typical "Oh no, it looks different, I don't want to touch it!" attitude. People will learn; in fact this is an opportunity to learn more and find the goodies that they're missing. On the other hand it is pretty poor to suddenly put a different system in front of the teachers because things aren't 100% the same. But to me, this is yet another demonstration that people are learning the wrong way. Instead of learning how to use a word processor to create a letter by making the header, salutations, body, signature, they have all been trained to push the buttons on a single type of word processor. There is absolutely nothing in the typical classroom which cannot be handled by free software today. I think one of the Linux platform is so much better is that you often have many choices on how to do one particular task; this usually encourages people to try different things then settle on the one they like best, rather than being trapped with the first solution that they were ever introduced to.

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