[ Thanks to Marco
Fioretti for this link. ]
“Free Software is widely used in education due to its
lower cost and huge flexibility. Homeschooling is relatively
popular in the USA and other countries. One would expect Free
Software to be very popular among homeschoolers, due to their own
philosophy: how could an homeschooling advocate not love software
that is all about being “free as in freedom” and doing things by
yourself?“Reality, however is quite different: compared to Windows and
Mac, Free Software is still almost unknown in the homeschooling
community. One year ago I even contacted directly several
homeschooling magazines and websites to ask why (at that time) they
had not yet recommended Free Software to their readers, and I’m
still waiting for (any) answer…“Very likely, the only reason why this happens is simple fear of
the unknown: why add to all the work required by homeschooling the
extra effort of learning something that must surely be boring and
very difficult? While discussing homeschooling per se is beyond the
purpose of this article, the rest of this page proves that this
assumption is wrong!”
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