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Exerpt:
"I'm an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting
new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the Macintoshes
in our digital media lab and installing Ubuntu in its place.
"I began seriously planning this change last school year, when I
realized how fully the current feature sets of free software programs
could satisfy the technical needs of the students in my classes. I
decided that the time had come to teach our undergraduate art
students about free software programs such as the GIMP, Scribus, and
Quanta Plus, instead of proprietary programs such as Photoshop,
QuarkXpress, and Dreamweaver.
The switch to free software has been a big success here in the
Department of Art and Design at Maharishi University of Management in
Fairfield, Iowa. This semester I plan to take the switch further in
my video classes by replacing Avid DV Express, Final Cut Express HD,
Soundtrack, and iDVD with Kino, Cinelerra, Rosegarden, and DVDstyler."
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Exerpt:
"I'm an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting
new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the Macintoshes
in our digital media lab and installing Ubuntu in its place.
"I began seriously planning this change last school year, when I
realized how fully the current feature sets of free software programs
could satisfy the technical needs of the students in my classes. I
decided that the time had come to teach our undergraduate art
students about free software programs such as the GIMP, Scribus, and
Quanta Plus, instead of proprietary programs such as Photoshop,
QuarkXpress, and Dreamweaver.
The switch to free software has been a big success here in the
Department of Art and Design at Maharishi University of Management in
Fairfield, Iowa. This semester I plan to take the switch further in
my video classes by replacing Avid DV Express, Final Cut Express HD,
Soundtrack, and iDVD with Kino, Cinelerra, Rosegarden, and DVDstyler."
- Thor Johnson 3-31-2006 11:21 pm