Teacher accuses student using linux of copyright infringement!

[ejb190]

Attention grabbing thread title doesn't really represent the whole story.

Of course the entire story is quite a long one and I doubt many people will read the entire thing (before replying/at all) but the final reply is worth reading.

I agree totally. Please read the "rest of the story" before you jump to conclusions. Headlines can be so deceptive. I remember the line "Police kill man with ax" in my local paper...

 

[peterja]

Don't say there isn't progress, this is a completely new subject for middle school teachers to be ignorant about.

 

[LeoFio]

Attention grabbing thread title doesn't really represent the whole story.

I am glad to see the situation remedied in a civil manner, and there were a couple of good points brought up in the final response.

Obviously when I created this thread, this final response was not written, and I urge all of you to read it.

 

[Drumjim85]

How did you narrow it down?

the real question is which karen is it?

DONSBACH KAREN T-7/8 SCI- GEN'
JACKSON KAREN T-MS/6 MATH
HARRIS KAREN T-7/8 LANG ARTS
SCHIPPER KAREN T-7/8 CHOIR
BAILEY KAREN T-7/8 P.E.
BRENNAN KAREN T-HS/SE R/I
TERRY KAREN T-MS/6 SOC SCI
CASE KAREN T-7/8 THEATER
GREEN KAREN T-7/8 LIFE SCI
NOYES KAREN LIBRARIAN- MS
AIDMAN KAREN MS ASST PRIN
CIESLA KAREN T-7/8 MATH
GREATHOUSE KAREN T-MS/SE LIFE SK

 

[Counterfit]

I guess it's a good thing the NEA never knew that my parents are Apple users.

 

[bradl]

Appears there's a followup to this.

From /.

An couple of anonymous readers wrote in to let us know about a followup to last Wednesday's story of the teacher who didn't believe in free software. The Linux advocate who posted the original piece has cooled off and graciously apologized for going off half-cocked (even though the teacher had done the same), and provided a little more background which, while not excusing the teacher's ignorance, does make her actions somewhat more understandable. Ken Starks has talked with the teacher, who has received a crash education in technology over the last few days — Starks is installing Linux on her computer tomorrow. He retracts his insinuations about Microsoft money and the NEA. All in all he demonstrates what a little honest communication can do, a lesson that all of us who advocate for free software can take to heart. "The student did get his Linux disks back after the class. The lad was being disruptive, but that wasn't mentioned. Neither was the obvious fact that when she saw a gaggle of giggling 8th grade boys gathered around a laptop, the last thing she expected to see on that screen was a spinning cube. She didn't know what was on those disks he was handing out. It could have been porn, viral .exe's...any number of things for all she knew. When she heard that an adult had given him some of the disks to hand out, her spidey-senses started tingling. Coupled with the fact that she truly was ignorant of honest-to-goodness free software, and you have some fairly impressive conclusion-jumping. In a couple of ways, I am guilty of it too."

Some interesting comments over there on the story too. Long story short, a Overzealous Linux geek, and a fearful teacher.. think of the children!

BL.

 

[dilbert4life]

Did any of you read the reply on http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/character-assasinations-aint-us.html ?

It is pretty good. I applaud developers with that type of attitude.

I was upset until I read that article.