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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2006-07-14
Yeah. I think we were in college at the same time period. The real thing that left me as a dual booter was the lack of a (Free)decent word processor/ spreadsheet back then. All of those reports needed formating, and the ability to read write MS office file formats.
I did get a copy of the free Word perfect for Linux. That worked pretty well, actually. But the fonts weren't very good. So I used it, but there were still other things that had no viable alternative to windows.