Drew Wilson
December 12th, 2008, 03:18 PM
Earlier this week, I wrote about a teacher in Austin who threatened to report a local free-Linux-machines charity to the police because "there's no such thing as free software" and they had therefore deceived the student she caught distributing Linux disks in class.
The teacher has since had a long conversation with the gentleman from the free Linux project, which is called HeliOS, and he's published a long, mature, and insightful note about the peace he's made with her (in particular, he posted a graceful and heartful apology for some out-of-line remarks he made about the teaching profession and the US teachers' union). It's worth a read
More... (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/12/epilogue-austin-scho.html)
It's really a common mistake made by the software/entertainment industry. Those industries are still in denial.
The teacher has since had a long conversation with the gentleman from the free Linux project, which is called HeliOS, and he's published a long, mature, and insightful note about the peace he's made with her (in particular, he posted a graceful and heartful apology for some out-of-line remarks he made about the teaching profession and the US teachers' union). It's worth a read
More... (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/12/epilogue-austin-scho.html)
It's really a common mistake made by the software/entertainment industry. Those industries are still in denial.