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115 lignes
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<title>About - FSFE Education</title>
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<a id="moreinfo" href="/activities/education/eduteam.html">Education Task Force</a>
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<h1>Reasons for schools to use Free Software</h1>
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Access to software determines who may participate in a digital
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society. The freedoms to use, study, share, and improve software
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allow everyone to participate on an equal basis. There are many
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reasons to use Free Software in general. Here, we have collected
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some that are particularly important for schools:
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<h2>Sharing</h2>
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<p>Using Free Software allows schools to teach children to share and cooperate
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and thus join a whole community that shares knowledge.
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<h2>Equality at home</h2>
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With Free Software, teachers can give a copy to each student. Thus children
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of families with few financial resources can learn with the same tools as every
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other child.
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<h2>Learning to program</h2>
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The possibility to tinker motivates children to learn more. Free Software
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allows them to understand computers in depth.
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<h2>Learning to use software</h2>
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Free Software permits children to learn how software works and thus
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to understand the concepts underlying a whole category or type of software.
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They are then able to adapt to any environment, a key skill nowadays.
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<h2>Learning in native language</h2>
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<p>Free Software applications can be translated into any language.
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Thus each child can learn and focus on the actual subject without any
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language or cultural barriers.
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<h2>Independence</h2>
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<p>Teaching children to rely on proprietary software makes them
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dependent on a software vendor. Teaching them to rely on Free
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Software, the children can continue using this software in their adult
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life while helping others by sharing it. Using and teaching Free
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Software also makes the school itself independent from software companies.
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<h2>Slash your hardware costs</h2>
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Free Software doesn't require powerful hardware and runs on almost any
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computer. It can give new life to old computers, saving both money and
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the environment.
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<h2>Forget your licenses costs</h2>
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Without licence fees, the school saves money and can use it to train
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teachers, or for technical support to make life easier for teachers.
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<h2>Don't worry about your licenses</h2>
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With Free Software, there are no worries about expiry dates or costs of the
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licenses. Free Software stays free in every sense. All students have
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access to perfectly legal copies.
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<h2>Administer easily</h2>
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<p>Free Software is stable, secure and reliable. Security and other updates can
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be implemented in a minute. Maintenance is automated and thus time-saving.</p>
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<address>
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Free Software Foundation Europe<br/>
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Linienstrasse 141, 10115 Berlin, Germany<br/>
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E-Mail: edu-team@fsfeurope.org<br/>
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Phone: +49-30-27595290<br />
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http://fsfe.org/activities/education/<br/>
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</address>
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<timestamp>$Date: 2010-07-17 07:20:49 +0200 (Sat, 17 Jul 2010) $ $Author: maelle $</timestamp>
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