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by Mike on Sunday 15/Jul/2007, @14:21

Funny, in elementary school and mostly through middle, I was taught on Apple equipment. Then the other half of middle, high school, and college has me working on Microsoft. Either way, it's something proprietary. At home, for reports, for assignments, for gaming and such, I use FreeBSD with KDE, OpenOffice.org 2.0 and a slew of games. Something about school is that they teach you everything about how the computer works and how Microsoft Office can help you be productive, and how to create applications using VB and Visual C++. It's all about proprietary, "this is what we're using, you should use it too" apps. They don't teach students how to debug applications outside of "put a print here and there and see where it crashes"... students don't learn the first thing about backtraces, or stepping through code (a UNIX process)... even in the United States. I think if more people in government, society, etc. could be "shown the light" it might just change the way things are run.

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