[MLUG] US teacher detains student for using Linux - vnunet.com

[Alex Bedard]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Vrej Melkonian <vmelkon at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Sun, 12/14/08, Peter Silva <Peter.A.Silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Peter Silva <Peter.A.Silva at gmail.com>
>
> > This story reflects very badly on open source.
>
> It is a amusing story worth telling and it has nothing to do with open
> source code.
> There are plenty of closed source free programs and libraries, games, ...
> The numbers are in the millions.
> And a lot of people are assuming the teacher doesn't know anything.
> Maybe she does know.
>
> For me, the line about "I will go to the cops if you don't stop" is pure
> gold and newsworthy.
>


Or the "I tried linux once in college" was a pretty good one too, similar to
the all too common "I tried marijuana once in college" / "I tried [whatever]
once in college"...
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