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Linux in Higher Education: Open Source, Open Minds, Social Justice

Mar 02, 2000  By Bryan Pfaffenberger
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Colleges and universities should move to adopt Linux as an international standard for computing in higher education.
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References

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I do agree Linux is one of

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I do agree Linux is one of the most advanced pieces of software ever built and it's free with great support. Students who in roll in higher
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courses should use that, it would make the course less expensive and more known because of it's use of linux.

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