(via BoingBoing): Austin teacher threatens to sic cops on Linux group because "No software is free"]

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

(Yes, it's Texas, *again*.)

        Austin teacher threatens to sic cops on Linux group because "No software is free"
        http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/10/austin-teacher-threa.html

Excerpt:

        A teacher in Austin sent an angry, accusatory email to a local
        Linux collective ("HeliOS Project, which builds and provides
        Linux computers to disadvantaged or 'exceptionally promising'
        students") accusing them of piracy for distributing the free
        operating system and excoriating them for encouraging her
        students to do the same. She threatened to have the group's
        organizer investigated by the police, too.

See also:

        http://austinist.com/2008/12/10/aisd_teacher_throws_fit_over_studen.php

and

        http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html

---Rsk

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