[ale] Palladium/MS: ideas for retaliation

[Keith R. Watson]

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Then salt the 
horse's oats.

The moral of this story is that getting the public schools system to use 
Linux is more of a political problem than a technological one, that's why 
they're not thirsty. We can "salt their oats" by demonstrating publicly the 
foolishness of not using Linux. Once this happens then the political system 
will eat it's own young and presto, the public school system will start 
using Linux without a shot being fired. (hows that for mixing metaphors?)

So who is in the same business as the public schools, is not controlled by 
politics (the government kin), is driven by budget concerns, and is not 
adverse to direct parental involvement? Private schools and colleges. Once 
Linux in a school environment is shown to be a success, public scrutiny and 
budget pressures will eventually "salt the horse's oats" and politics will 
take care of the rest. Granted, it doesn't immediately help any of you who 
have kids in public school but at least its a start. In the interest of 
full disclosure I home school, so for me it's a moot point, but it galls me 
that they squander the tax dollars that they still make me pay.

keith
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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836

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