US schools trial desktop Linux - ZDNet UK News: "'We're thrilled that a desktop Linux solution is being evaluated in Indiana with such success, and we're confident that other school systems will look to this deployment as an example for their own classrooms. This is a way educators can give every student quality, well-equipped computers at a price the schools can afford,' said Carmony in a statement.
The US is not the only country with large-scale plans to roll-out Linux on the desktop. South Korea has deployed Linux in 190 schools in its capital city Seoul and plans to eventually roll it out to 10,000 schools across the country. The city of Bergen in Norway is also at the early stages of a desktop Linux roll-out that will eventually lead to 32,000 pupils and 4,000 teachers using Linux at 100 schools across the city."
This is a smart pedagogic decision as far as I can see. Now I think US is starting to realize that Linux in the schools is the only way to lead in the knowledge economy. Information technology is like oil in the capitalistic machinery, and essential in nanotechnology, biotechnology. The problem is that young people in Europe and US dont want to learn math or computerscience. Asians usually win the programming contests in over US today. Linux is probably the best tool to engage the pupils, because then they get FULL control over their equipment, not only control over applications or programming languages they use.
So, then the US help Microsoft to expand in Africa with "aid"- money instead, just like the tobacco industry, or the oil companies had to migrate to the third world. Just take a look at this (thanks to Hans Petter):
"Powerful multinational corporations in the oil and lead industries, by exaggerating the costs of removing lead additives and playing down the health risks, effectively lobby and manipulate government decisions in many developing countries."
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