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[Norway] Linux in Oslo High Schools (Updated)
Submitted by Willy Smith on 18 November, 2003 - 17:21.
Original announcement from SkoleLinux.no (Norwegian)
Oslo is the capital of Norway, and has half a million inhabitants. The authorities there are starting an official pilot project using Linux (instead of Windows) in the high schools. Now, some schools are already using Skolelinux, so it's not as if Linux is a foreign concept in this age group.
In fact, Linus Torvalds is Finnish, and both Finland and Norway are Scandanavian countries. So it's not unexpected that a Google search shows that there are lots of resources for Linux in Norway. Note that many of them are in English in case you care to have a look.
One of our Norwegian gnomes, whose initials curiously enough are MS, remarked "My personal thought is that this really should scare a certain provider of proprietary solutions. If all the college pupils in Oslo in a few years have a knowledge of Linux as an alternative, we are a big step further towards, if not world domination, at least domination in Oslo.... It will be interesting to see what kind of irrefusable offers they will come up with to counter this, and how that will influence their public image here."
Willy Smith, reporting from Costa Rica with a lot of help from Morten Sickel
Updates:
"Microsoft Out - Linux In"
Re: [Norway] Linux in Oslo High Schools (Updated)
There has been a bit of press here lately about Linux usage in education in Norway, with coverage in the largest broadsheet during the weekend, and on TV and radio this week. We hope that the work done by Skolelinux will provide a viable alternative for solutions in schools, ending the de facto monopoly in place today. Please be advised that Skolelinux is an international effort now, with offshoots even in your part of the world, in Brazil. As many succesful open source projects it spreads according to its appeal to its targeted audience, market or whatever you want to call it. With the help of your publication and many others like it the word is spread, and perhaps even more students can be given an opportunity to learn and use IT tools in parts of the world far away from us here on the fringes of civilization.
Ragnar Wisl