* **Lawfulness**:open source software is perfectly legal because it is_fully licensed_by authors for sharing, study, modification and, of course, usage;
* **Old hardware re-use**: GNU/Linux is usually less resource-intensive than other proprietary operative systems; this permits to use old (not prehistoric, anyways 🙂 ) hardware and does not force to necessarily change hardware to create a new laboratory. This enables some money savings for the schools;
* **Helps family to follow didactics at home**: the same tools used at school by childrens and students can be downloaded from Internet, legally licensed and free to be used on home PCs, without imposing other expenses to the families (again, as proprietary software usually forces). Usuallyopen source software is multiplatform (it can be used on many, if not all, operative systems, also if they are proprietary ones like Windows or macOS), so it can be used anywhere;
* **Technological updating**: as of today, a lot of laboratories in schools (at least in Italy) use the old Windows XP, which is deemed**unsupported** by Microsoft itself from April, 2014. This implies that in this OS any bugs or new security problems are not fixed nor corrected, leaving most of the laboratories and IT infrastructure **vulnerable**to newer types of attacks.
Other details on the**LibreSchool** project are described on the [training offer][1] page and on the [technical solution][2] page. Further indications on how to contribute are available at the [join][3] page.