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The FOSS movement	by: Poppe
Perhaps some bureaucrats may be fearful of switching schools to open source software. However, I think that it has more to do with the rumors that Linux is more complex than Windows to learn and use. I disagree with the notion that children will have more trouble learning to use a Linux operating system. After all there are those of us that learned to use a computer in a command-line DOS environment... We learned to use a PC in a far more complex environment than what kids today have. Kids are bright; they will have no troule learning to use Linux on the desktop. Now, as far as the teachers being unwilling to learn new software. Why do the taxpayers have to pay the wages of some burned-out, lazy bums who aren't willing to WORK for their paychecks? After all it was these same teachers who went to school during the command-line era, and had made the decision to be a teacher. That was their choice, they knew that re-education in their job field was going to be part of their job. It should not fall on the taxpayers shoulders to continue paying out their rears for those instructor's lassitude. What should happen is that those teachers should be given an ultimatum... Either learn to teach the new software or you can stay at your same salary for the next 20 years as we won't be able to afford any pay increase for you due to software expenditures. Ultimately, it's the parent's choice whether or not they want their kids to continue being taught by teachers who are too lazy to learn new things to teach. Because when hundreds of thousands of angry taxpayers yell at the government in unison. The government really has little choice but to listen, and take action. After all no government, not even a monarchy is interested in losing tax revenues. If the parents speak together, the bureaucrats will listen.