Teachers Need an Open Source Education 440
palegray.net writes "Teachers are sorely in need of an education in what open source software is, what it isn't, and how it can benefit their students. A recent news story at the Reg discussed the case of a Texas teacher who accused those distributing Linux to students of committing criminal acts. A HeliOS blog entry exposes a 'higher education' culture of apathy, lies, and fear of open source software. Things have got to improve, and that improvement needs to start with misguided teachers getting their facts straight."
Firefox is apparently a proxy. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What?! (Score:4, Funny)
Call me at home and you're likely to discover your phone number has been mistaken for a free sex number.
Um, tell me more about these 'free sex numbers'. I'd, er, also like to give these out instead of my home number..
Re:Lack of knowledge not an excuse (Score:5, Funny)
I took an intro to Linux class (Score:3, Funny)
"I want you to get into the habit of logging in as root"
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Re:citations please .. (Score:4, Funny)
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.