<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.3.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 20:34 -0400, Matt Oquist wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > From: Terrell Prud?, "Jr." <<A HREF="mailto:microman@cmosnetworks.com">microman@cmosnetworks.com</A>> > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Which Windows apps stand in the way of Linux use at your school? > > > - KidPix > > > - Adobe Photoshop > > Any reason Tux Paint and Gimp aren't suitable replacements for you? > Yes. Because the administrators and management won't allow them to be. > Sadly, the teachers are complicit in this lunacy. The more convincing ClueBat(TM) is the financial one. Perhaps people will think differently someday when they have the choice between 10 Photo$hop/Window$ computers and 30 Linux thin clients. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Experience tells me otherwise. Politicians^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAdministrators, I've discovered, will think differently only when they feel like they're in imminent danger of job loss. Around here, that's not the situation, so they don't sense any immediate threat to their personal wallets or status by staying with the status quo. Thus, they don't see a need to change. I still maintain that the only way to get this change is to put those in power, whenever possible, in a position where they actually feel like their jobs are in immediate danger. The State of Massachusetts's CIO appears well on the way to making that threat very real for those who choose not to support truly open standards. --TP </BODY> </HTML>