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Thursday, August 30, 2001
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45862,00.html Penguin Enrolls in U.S. Schools By Angel Gonzalez Tux the penguin may become the preferred mascot of America's financially strained public education system –- for Linux represents a way to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for software. More than 98 percent of the schools in the U.S. have Internet access, according to a recent Department of Education report. But software costs can be prohibitive, especially now that Microsoft is stepping up efforts to stop license infringement in schools, forcing them to pay for every single copy of Windows they run....
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