[K12OSN] Which Windows apps stand in the way of Linux use at your school?

[Petre Scheie]

I should have perhaps mentioned that GimpShop is the Gimp but with the user interface 
modified to look like PhotoShop, and provided a link:
http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241

It's a good tool, good example.

Petre Scheie wrote:
> Have you shown them GimpShop?  (Not that it would do any good, from the 
> sounds of it).
> 
> One question we, of my school's technical advisory committee, have been 
> kicking around for the past year or so is what we should be teaching 
> kids, within the context of computers, to give them the skills to not 
> just get jobs, but to be able to create jobs, create new companies.  The 
> discussion was inspired by "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman (who 
> is from our city, coincidently), which some of you may be familiar with. 
> The book's premise--as I understand it; I haven't read it--is the 
> question of how do you create and keep good jobs in your community when 
> seemingly most any technical job can be done overseas for less money?
> 
> If your kids are only learning how to click on things, those skills can 
> be easily replaced by someone somewhere else who will do it for a lot 
> less money.  If, on the other hand, your kids learn about computing by 
> working with tools they can 'take apart', change, and share, they'll 
> have a skillset of knowing how to build things, not just use them.  
> Knowing how to build a house is a more valuable skill than how to live 
> in a house or than how to clean a house.
> 
> Back to GimpShop: The value of GimpShop is not just that it provides a 
> free tool for people coming from PhotoShop, but that it also 
> demonstrates how OSS can be modified by anyone to fill a need.  It also 
> demonstrates how none of us is as strong as all of us: The GimpShop mod 
> was originally done on a Mac; someone else took the code and compiled it 
> for Linux; another person ported it to Windows.  OSS allows us to teach 
> kids that they can control their own destiny.
> 
> Petre
> 
> 
> Terrell Prudé wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:09 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:10:32AM -0400, Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>>> In no particular order, here are the major apps that I know about that
>>>> our schools use.  Any one of these is, sadly, considered to be a show-
>>>> stopper.
>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> - KidPix
>>>> - Adobe Photoshop
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Any reason Tux Paint and Gimp aren't suitable replacements for you?
>>>
>>> -bill!
>>>
>>
>> Yes.  Because the administrators and management won't allow them to 
>> be.  Sadly, the teachers are complicit in this lunacy.
>>
>> --TP
>>
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