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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2008-03-25
I'm opposite to you in some way. When I was in university a few years ago. I use Linux most the time. Not only because I want to get away from Microsoft, also because I can do my home work at home and then quickly port it over to school's solaris (if required).
Now, I uses Windows most the time. Not that I like it better, but I work on .NET stuff most the time, unfortunately.