[ale] OT Flame War Re: a specter is haunting our school systems!

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Fri Dec 12 09:40:51 EST 2008


ALErs -

Clearly the teacher is uninformed and heavy-handed, but also 'Helios' is a 
rather poor advocate for either free software ('as in' either) or for the 
child. It sounds like the relation between parent and teacher is pretty 
sour -- and the child is the one who pays for it.

  - JMM

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jim Philips wrote:

> And its name is...okay, it's not communism. It's Linux. For anyone who may not
> yet have read this blog post, please read:

> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html

> Maybe this concerned teacher should get a job as a droid for the Business
> Software Alliance.


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