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> Why is that so good.. It encourages tinkering which is especially important for students. Also, many other general benefits that open-source brings. For exa
by hrjet 11y ago
> Why is that so good..
It encourages tinkering which is especially important for students.
Also, many other general benefits that open-source brings. For example, open source code is more trustable than closed source.
- hchenji 11y agoYeah but if GNULinux is free in the first place, why spend so much govt. money on it?
- afarrell 11y agoGNU/Linux is Free as in Speech, not Free as in Beer. Much like printing presses and political campaigns still cost money, so does hardware and especially so does the time to mentor someone on how to use GNU/Linux. For many organizations, Windows is actually monetarily cheaper than Linux, particularly organizations that need to deploy non-web GUI applications for users who are never going to be comfortable on a terminal.