drafted up an article about using #opensource in education. got perturbed hearing a family member describe the "need" for a certain brand of application as the only one that can do a common task.

it's almost as if educational institutions think that their job is to RTFM to their students instead of actually teach 'em the concepts that are meaningful to a particular field or task.

no wonder people are scared of change. how can they keep doing math if the calculator doesn't print out paper?