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It's so sad that people who teach children can be so ignorant. And even more so that they take it as far as Karen, a teacher with the AISD (which Google says is the Austin Independent School District, YMMV) who discovered, to her horror, one of her students demonstrating Linux to his classmates and handing out disks of HeliOS.

Ever the quick one, Karen confiscated all those illegal Linux disks and gave the student detention. It could have stopped there, but she went even further by sending an almost laughably vacuous letter full of insanity and stupidity to Ken Starks who runs the HeliOS project which, by the way, uses Free and Open Source Software to bring technology to kids who otherwise would not have the advantages that other kids have in the world. The project gives them a chance to compete now in the academic space, and in the future when they go to seek employment and is quite a noble project. read more »

It's one thing to be open minded, it's another thing to be blindly devoted to a show that is a reincarnation of something you loved in the 80s. This seems to apply to a LOT of NBCs lineup... It's either Law and Order, or a "revisioned" version of a previous show, or a direct rip of a foreign show. Really... with The Office, they at least didn't make a point that it was a copy of a popular British Show. With Kath and Kim they just gave up and said "Hey, the Australians wrote a great show, we're out of ideas, so we're Americanizing it!" read more »