My friends and I tried [linux|drugs|anal sex] in college and I know it's illegal!
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 »
Das Aggregator!