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Rob Beard wrote: > Henry Bremridge wrote: > >> couple of extra articles that give some background to the story. Not quite sure >> what the truth is >> >> http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/digitalsavant/entries/2008/12/11/breaking_local.html >> >> Quote >> >> Now, Starks says he regrets the whole incident. "I don't think I've ever >> committed one act that made me feel like such a schmuck," he said in a >> phone interview with the American-Statesman today. >> >> >> "Starks says he has spoken with the teacher twice since his Monday post and that >> "Karen" was crying when they spoke. What she failed to mention in her >> initial e-mail, he says, is that she gave the Linux discs back to the student >> and was more concerned that there might be pornography or other >> suspect material on the discs than about a non-Windows operating system being >> introduced in the classroom." >> >> "Nevertheless, there's a bit of a silver lining in the story of how an angry >> e-mail could rile the entire Linux world: on Saturday, Starks says, he has been >> invited to install the Linux operating system on Karen's home computer. " >> >> End quote >> >> http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/digitalsavant/entries/2008/12/11/aisd_director_o.html?cxntfid=blogs_digital_savant >> >> Quote >> >> Of the district's 36,000 computers, two-thirds of them run Windows. However, >> these computers also run Open Office, Google Earth, Google Apps, Firefox and many >> other free software, much of it open-source. In addition, the district has 100 >> Linux servers and a lot of its infrastructure runs on that platform, Salada told >> the American-Statesman. >> >> "We pretty much look at what the best product is to get the job done and we're >> very price-sensitive as well," Salada said. >> >> Salada said that although AISD would love for the whole situation to blow over, >> they aren't making a concerted effort to identify the teacher, identified only >> online as "Karen," or to discipline her. In fact, Salada says he understands the >> teacher making sure inappropriate content wasn't being brought into the >> classroom. "She was really doing her job," he said, "I think where this thing >> melted down was in the interchange (online)." >> >> End Quote >> >> >> >> > > So after all that it ended well. To be honest I didn't think the idea > of sending a hate xmas card to the teacher or school involved would make > the Free Software community look very good at all. Last thing we want > is to get bad publicity about Linux, Microsoft do enough of that for us > already. > > Technically though reading the quote above, have I missed something? > Google Earth & Google Apps are now GPL'd? > > Rob > > > Google Earth's license: http://earth.google.com/license.html GPL? Doesn't look like it. But to many, "free" means only one thing - and it doesn't end in "dom". Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html