On 11 Dec 12:01, Ted Harding wrote:
Hi Folks, The following received this morning from the Seattle Linux List. (Still trying to recover from temporomadibular dislocation ... ).
What most amuses me is: """ Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back. """
Err, so, erm, how did this teacher try linux? Did they pay for it? Just how ignorant have they got to be?
I'm very much hoping that this "teacher" is not the IT teacher ;)
-----FW: e35fe88f0812102328tbb31ac9m521c25f92fee2b10@mail.gmail.com----- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:28:34 -0800 Sender: linux-list-bounces@lists2.linuxjournal.com From: Jerry Horvath jerroldhorvath@gmail.com To: Seattle Linux Users Group linux-list@ssc.com Subject: [SLL] What is taught to some Austin, Texas students
"In an age where Windows and OS X reign supreme, it's no wonder that a local AISD middle school teacher became enraged after discovering one of her students distributing what she believed to be bootlegged copies of an operating system in class http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ignorant-teacher-linux-in-education.html."
*No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful.* http://austinist.com/2008/12/10/aisd_teacher_throws_fit_over_studen.php
Regards,
Jerry Horvath --------------End of forwarded message-------------------------
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