PCPro: Teacher threatens to call the cops over Linux – HAHA
Okay I was sitting and reading some articles and fell over this one, yeah as the topic says:
A teacher in the US gave one of her students detention for showing off his HeliOS distrubion of Linux.
Small clips:
“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. 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.
“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,”
“I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them…”
Read the whole article at PCPro:
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The complete letters can be found at the HeliOS projects blog:
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