Guest Post: Why schools should refuse iPads
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On his school experience: Windows software is also proprietary, but you can run Linux on a Mac, and open-source software on OSX or Windows too. He is completely mixing up open-source software with hardware/OS vendors.
> I strongly recommend your students become broadly educated computer users [...] so they can maximize the effectiveness of their computing and be more employable because of their high ability to adapt to whatever computer platform their employer may be using
Sure using Linux will do that... what's the difference? Students won't learn how to use Windows or OSX either if they don't have contact with them.
In general it is a good philosophy if the school are not under the influence of economic forces, like Apple or Windows ...
* If school would use GNU/Linux instead I thing the students would get a much deeper understanging of the OS. * A lot more peaple would use Linux and thus GNU/Linux would have a much wider spread. * The school wouldn't have to pay for the OS.