Just got the news from a a Twitter friend about a teacher in Austin who threatened to have the organizer of the HeliOS Project investigated by the police when she saw one of her students showcasing the ability of a Linux-powered laptop and handing out Linux disks.
“Mr. Starks, 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,” she says.
But that ain’t the worst part yet because she also said this, “This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer, and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all.“
Obviously this teacher doesn’t know what Linux is and most probably has not heard of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Truly a misinformed teacher she is!
Read the full story here.
