Thursday, January 29, 2009

Teachers Need an Open Source Education

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 29, @06:20AM

from the yer-darn-tootin' dept.
EducationGNU is Not UnixOperating SystemsLinux
palegray.net writes"Teachers are sorely in need of an education in what open source software is, what it isn't, and how it can benefit their students. A recent news story at the Reg discussed the case of a Texas teacher who accused those distributing Linux to students of committing criminal acts. A HeliOS blog entry exposes a "higher education" culture of apathy, lies, and fear of open source software. Things have got to improve, and that improvement needs to start with misguided teachers getting their facts straight."

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