(Ted Harding) wrote:
Hi Folks, The following received this morning from the Seattle Linux List. (Still trying to recover from temporomadibular dislocation ... ). Ted.
-----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
This is absolutely classic... I ran an Ubuntu Live CD during an IT lesson one time, got into similar trouble for a little while till I got a chance to explain what I was actually up to. I gave my IT teacher some live CDs for which he was very grateful.
Some of the comments on that post and the posts it links to are really good.
-Si