Hoosier Daddy? Indiana Schools Adopt Linux (Information Week) [LWN.net]

Information Week reports on a large Linux deployment by the Indiana Department of Education. "Local schools can choose which platform to use, according to Huffman. "Many will install Windows machines. What we're doing in our grant program is, when we put one-to-one computers in language arts classrooms, they are loaded with Linux. "We have a million kids in the state of Indiana," he continued. "If we were to pay $100 for software on each machine, each year, that's $100 million for software. That's well beyond our ability. That's why open source is so attractive. We can cut those costs down to $5 [on each computer] per year." Huffman said he's eager to get a read on student acceptance of Linux. In surveying one classroom last year, he asked a student what he thought of using a Linux desktop vs. a Windows desktop, and the student responded, "Who cares?""

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Ah... the "who cares?" defense

Posted Sep 2, 2006 20:45 UTC (Sat) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

It worked on Boston Legal (or was that The Practice), so why not here?

:-)