Linked by David Adams on Thu 11th Dec 2008 00:14 UTC, submitted by jawbreaker
A teacher in Austin, TX reprimanded a student for demonstrating Linux to his classmates and distributing free Linux CDs. She then goes on to contact Ken Starks of the HeliOS Project, who provided the CDs, and claim that "putting Linux on these machines is holding our kids back" and "No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful". Although she claims to have used Linux herself in college, she feels that "putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all". On the HeliOS blog, Ken Starks hints that this may be more than just ignorance of the teacher's part.
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2006-01-26
Yes! Someone needs to verbally kick the butt to that borg from the dark side, so the Iron Man of Free Software is a very good candidate for that!
Another candidate could be Linus Torvalds, and his reply would be quoted in every geek email signature.
An autographed photo of Richard Stallman with a dedicated letter would scare her and quit from the education "industry" forever, but that's too cruel and maybe she could think about suicide