OT: Linux - Stop holding our kids back

[Lisa Kachold]

> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:31:27 -0700
> From: jjzeidner at gmail.com
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: OT: Linux - Stop holding our kids back
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 10, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Personally I believe that this blog is false.  I think it was made up
> >>>> just to spark a FOSS/MS debate, just like this one we're having now!  :)
> >>>> Just smells a little fishy to me...
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking the exact same thing.
> >>
> >>  Same here... the story seems very fabricated.
> >
> >
> > Could be.  But the "believe me because you're dumber than me" attitude that
> > the blogger takes toward this teacher (fictional or no) is quite real, and a
> > problem that many of us suffer from.
> 
>   well that does contribute to my opinion... seems like hes creating
> this effigy of the evil anti-OSS person and then tearing her apart.
> The whole thing just seems generally like a stupid scheme concocted by
> some sophomoric linux user.  Note that there are no sources, no real
> names, what looks like some kind of institutional name (but you can't
> make out what it is).  Ive seen totally false stories like this
> propagate through the net, so I have my doubts.
> 
>   -jmz
> 
> >
> > I think it's a barrier to spreading free software when its advocates are
> > poor at making a point non-technical people will understand and relate to.
> >  That was the point of my initial comment, and I think valid regardless of
> > the underlying facts of this particular story.  Don't tell people why
> > they're wrong/misguided/stupid.  It only turns people off.  Focus on what's
> > good about what you're doing, not what's bad about what they're doing.
> >
> > alex
> >

Yes it's an urban anti-technology myth, cleverly posted here by trolls!



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