GNU/Linux in education: free means to creativity

All components in GNU/Linux can be freely employed, redistributed, copied and modified according to the GNU General Public License. This ensures students to be free to produce anything they want with what they learn of it, as their knowledge is openly shared and exchanged, not owned by any company that can restrict their rights to produce and redistribute creations.

In education we believe that independence from commercial influences is an important point to make it available to the most and to not endorse or promote merchantile interests within public institutions.

Since 2001 http://dyne.org is independently developing one of the few GNU/Linux operating systems considered 100% FREE by the Free Software Foundation and widely employed and distributed by educational organizations worldwide:

Montevideo / Time Based Arts (NL) http://montevideo.dyne.org

Ircam, Centre Pompidou (FR) http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dynebolic/

Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT) http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/dynebolic/

Providence Univ. Taichung (TW) ftp://ftp.cs.pu.edu.tw/Linux/dynebolic/

Tecnhische Univ. Ilmenau (DE) ftp://ftp.tu-ilmenau.de/Mirrors/dynebolic/

Instituto de Computação Universidade Estadual de Campinas (BR) http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/dynebolic/

Politecnico di Torino Univ. (IT) http://linux.studenti.polito.it/download.php?version=42

This is a proposal for a panel discussion about the horizon of employing FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) in education and development.