Slashdot: OSDL CEO Answers Slashdot Questions

“This may seem like an inane question but why don’t I see more
of a push to get Linux into the realm of academia…?

“I have found from conversations with CS professors that while
Linux is still finding its way into college curricula, it is being
used by students on their PCs and in their university labs. It’s
also being used by college IT staff for the same reasons it is
appealing to corporate IT managers – cost of acquisition, lower
cost of management and the ability to prolong the lifetime of
legacy hardware. And, in Asia and across a range of developing
countries, by contrast, Linux is forming the core of much
curricula, especially in countries where governments see Linux as a
means to local technology development. In many universities that I
visit outside the U.S., I meet with the head of open source for the
university…”

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