[ Thanks to Marco
Fioretti for this link. ]
“A recent official report on FOSS in Italy says, among other
things, ‘[the standard usage] of Free Software can be reproduced in
elementary schools only with difficulty.’ Luckily, says Italian
Linux activist Antonio Bernardi, ‘Nobody in Costabissara had read
that report, and we hope they never do.’“Costabissara is a small city in the province of Vicenza, which
is in the northeast corner of Italy. The first signs of human
activity in the area date back as far as 900 BC. Work on the city
castle began in the early 7th century AC. Today, in Motta di
Costabissara, the city hosts one of the few Italian elementary
schools in which free software regularly is used…”