Z:gnu-www-ja-rieti--388f07-A more important reason for sc/en

A more important reason for schools to use free software is for the sake of learning. You see, in the teenage years, some students are going to want to learn everything there is to know about the inside of the computer system. These are the people who can become good programmers. If you want to develop a strong programming capacity, people prepared not just to work as part of a big team in a rather mechanical way, but people who will take the initiative, do big things, develop powerful, exciting programs, then you need to encourage the impulse to do that, whenever a kid has that impulse. So it is important to provide facilities and a social milieu that encourages this kind of learning to develop.