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Grant Sewell wrote: > 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. > Yep, I guess to a lot of people, free is just Free as in beer. Mmmm free beer :-) http://www.freebeer.org Rob -- 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