Teacher Confiscates Linux CDs, says "No Software Is Free"
A teacher in Texas decries free software, insists on paying Microsoft.
Dave Rosenberg Co-founder, MuleSource
Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, co-founder of MuleSoft, and managing director for Hardy Way. He is an adviser to DataStax, IT Database, and Puppet Labs.
Who needs Microsoft FUD when brainwashed teachers are doing free marketing?
A teacher in Texas recently confiscated Linux OS discs that a kid was passing out in class. She also sent a nastygram to HeliOS, the nonprofit that built and donated the Linux-loaded computer.
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. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them..."
And a great response from the HeliOS team:
The most disturbing part of this resides in the fact that the AISD purchases millions of dollars of Microsoft Software in a year's time when that money could be better spent on educating our children. A dedicated School Teacher would recognize that fact and lobby for the change to Free Open Source Software and let the money formally spent on MS bindware be used on our kids.
Via Consumerist
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