[mdlug] Sad state of schools but hope may be with students

[Mark Kimsal]

On Wednesday 10 December 08, R. Kannan wrote:
> A few comments on this article seem to indicate that this story is made up.
> I cannot believe such stupidity exists among our teachers. Has the author
> of the story been proven to be not credible in the past?

Hah, you can tell it's 100% made up because there's a Windows users who thinks 
operating systems cost money.  The majority of technically under-educated 
people I know have no clue how much Windows costs, that you can buy it from 
the store, or that it is even separable from a computer.  POST tests, BIOS 
screens, boot logos and desktops all kind of blur together to make "the 
computer".  

The level of technical competence expressed by the teacher in question tips 
their hand too much.  A person with that much computer knowledge has probably 
heard of free (even discounting Free) software.

Basically, if you start throwing around the word "operating system", you can't 
be so out-of-it as to not have heard of Linux/FOSS.  The situation loses a 
lot of credibility with me at that point.

Add in the end of the letter, which suggests begging MS for old copies of 
Windows (which there's no way you could get even if you tried to pay for 
them), and you get a pretty poorly made up story... at least it seems that 
way to me.


On a related note... would confiscating all the CDs constitute a DoS attack on 
the kid's software?

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