Posted on 12/10/2008 5:23:13 PM PST by ari-freedom
In an age where Windows and OS X reign supreme, it's no wonder that a local AISD middle school teacher became enraged after discovering one of her students distributing what she believed to be bootlegged copies of an operating system in class.
While teacher "Karen" was clearly operating under the assumption that she'd scored a minor victory for the Microsofts and other downtrodden software giants of the world, the particular operating system that she ended up disciplining her student for was a freely distributable version of Linux.
To wit, the following is part of an email that the teacher sent to the person who originally provided said Linux to the student
(Excerpt) Read more at austinist.com ...
Now, I have my problems with M$, but anyone who believes that Redmond would actually provide any copies of Winders, especially older copies, does not have enough information to engage in this debate.
M$ won't even let charities transfer licenses on donated computers. However, in other countries they have created a cheap version of XP for distribution to combat piracy. But not in the US.
I have to tell you, I’ve grown to like MS Word, I can’t live without Excel, I’m learning to tolerate Access (I’m just learning to appreate Acrobat Pro, but that’s a different animal), but when I had WordPerfect (no mouse support) it was all I ever wanted, and I didn’t want to give up that blue screen.
What Linux is great for on an old system/lap top is restarting USB ports, as boot disk, Linux is quite good.
I’ve tried DSL 3.3 and Ubuntu’s Dapper Drake and 8.0, they are okay, I think a student with time and interest in really poking around would love them and learn alot, but for me..not so much..
That does not say much for the state of education in this country. How are the kids supposed to learn something when idiots like this woman are teaching?
Open Office and Foxit reader for me.
In college I came so very close to having a..incident..involving a networked computer running Word Perfect 2.11’s “justify” feature...no jury in the land would have convicted me!!!!
That's about the caliber of your average education major these days, yeah. My roommate's girlfriend/fiance/wife in college was an education major. Also completely, insufferably, irretrievably, hopelessly stupid...and borderline evil.
She, more than any other single variable, solidified my wife's and my decision to homeschool our kids. No person like that will ever teach/guide my kids.
I've used modified Knoppix in the past, but mostly Helix and Backtrack currently when I need to work on a compromised system. The desktop guys use a custom windows PE build for imaging systems, data recovery, etc.
Open Office, nay. Performance is a joke.
“Some of the dumbest people I know are teachers.”
Of course, the one in question is a union member.
Victor Davis Hanson really sums it up nicely here:
“Some of the dumbest people I know are teachers....and doctors and lawyers.”
Really? I know hundreds of doctors, but I never met a single one who was dumb.
“Foxit Reader, yea. Better performance with most PDFs and better security.
Open Office, nay. Performance is a joke.”
Yeah, thta’s my take on them as well. Like Foxit, but Open Office is kinda clunky.
Some of the dumbest people I know are teachers....and doctors and lawyers.
Have you considered that educators are the lowest 10% of the academic talent pool (holds for faculty & students).
Doctors and lawyers have to survive in the real world, a world where incompetence has consequences.
While I like a good lawyer joke as well as the next FReeper, to compare the average lawyer, let alone a Doctor, IQ with educator IQ scores is a stretch worthy of of the old comic book character ‘Plastic Man’.
And I thought Austin was where the Commie Texans lived!
Nice to see a teacher promoting capitalist values and supporting companies that actually pay people to develop software!
there are plenty of companies that make money by using linux. There’s nothing capitalist about denying choices.
Use The Proper OS For The Task
Linux for servers
Mac for graphics
Unix for production,
Windows for Solitaire
The original version of Word Perfect for Windows had an auto-save feature that was enabled by default. One day I was working on a project that I'd spent nearly 2 hours on, saving it on a regular basis. Then something happened, and WPfW managed to corrupt my document. Before I could stop it, the damn program managed to overwrite the last good save I had!
So I know what you mean.
Mark
you can use linux for solitaire for free! :)
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