Linux - Stop holding our kids back
This blog is momentarily interrupted to bring you a snippet of recently received email.
"...observed one of my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop. Upon looking at his computer, I saw he was giving a demonstration of some sort. The student was showing the ability of the laptop and handing out Linux disks. After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows. 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.
What an FUCKING Idiot...*sigh* only in America.
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Floppy Donkey crawled out of the ditch., Fri 12 Dec 2008, 12:31,
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At first I thought that it was a parody,
using Linux in place of weed in the same arguments for comic effect.
Then I realised that it was serious and I died a little inside. I'm a windoze PC user through and through, but even I can tell that her claims about Linux are bollocks!
(, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 13:00, Reply)
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/character-assasinations-aint-us.html
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It's worth reading the follow up too..
Sadly, it proves there are as many people out there that want to harm others for their percieved ignorance, as there are that are ignorant themselves, as the author demontrates in his follow up.
I think people should be free to make their own choices, based on the full information, however life isn't that simple, people follow trends or what they believe to be good advice, and in general it's easier to go with the flow than make a change that requires some effort (no matter how much that effort may be).
Should anyone be condemned, for simply making a choice, that isn't the one that another person thinks is the right one?
As it turns out, the teacher jumped to conclusions herself, but I'll let you read that for yourself.
Apologies for the length.
(, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 15:30, Reply)
Thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen it.
As amusing as the original post is, Internet Rage like that is harmful to all sides.
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Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 16:06,
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