Teacher tells students Linux is "illegal"

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM,  <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> She's clueless but I thought the Linux guy was a bit condescending about
>>> the whole thing.
>
> The next shoe drops in this story. This reinforces my instinct that a
> careful, dispassionate rebuttal is the best way to answer nonsense about
> Linux.

I don't think, from what I have seen, that the initial reaction was
particularly off-base.

Making noises about legal threats is a pretty serious matter.  If she
didn't want to "play hardball," she shouldn't have started out with
that sort of threatening tone.  You start playing hardball, over
something you're ignorant about, and you're liable to wind up bruised,
which is exactly what has happened.

I'm not terribly proud of some of the secondary reactions.  One
response (on that page) suggested that she be "stabbed in the face,"
which is just ludicrous.  She doesn't deserve THAT sort of nonsense;
apparently there are some real animals out there.  Seems analogous to
the recent "Kick a Ginger" situation where a bunch of kids in BC had
the bright idea of acting out a South Park episode that proposed
kicking people with red hair ("gingers").

Our society seems to be generating some real "feral animals."

Karen doesn't deserve the "feral animal" bits.  But that's not the
entire story, either - she did start a storm, and trying to be
authoritative about things you don't understand just isn't wise.

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