Most teachers don’t have a clue there’s even another OS out there.

With that said, in my opinion Microcrap should be outlawed!

Read up on the “First sale doctrine” sometime — a lot of the bullshit restrictions in EULAs probably wouldn’t stand up in court, any more than the “don’t sell below this price” would. That, or they need to stop lying to us and claiming that people “buy” software.

It’s not ownership (in that you aren’t permitted “legally” to do what you want with it), but it’s not exactly rental either. It’s….bullshit. (NO wonder people crack stuff and share it.)

1. Thanks to various corporate lobbies we all know and love so well, a large proprortion of the populace believes the bullshit about copyright, patents and such monopolistic bullshit being critical to any “business model”. They’ve been force-bed the notion that it’s only proprietary, secretive, and thoroughly Statist IP regs which create an “incentive to create”. Thus, the notion that “no software is free” comes easy to them. The idea that people would actively WAIVE a significant proportion of the draconian IP bullshit (or USE it to “enforce freedom” a la the GPL license etc.) doesn’t make sense to them.

Ignorant sheep like this are the best thing corporate megaliths could hope for: ignorant, docile, mindlessly obedient, and willing to enforse their own twisted interpretation of an ALREADY idiotic legal coce.

This is why copyright and patents need to be scaled back (if not totally abandoned outright.) Shit like this is inexcusable.

Too bad he blanked her info, or she could have gotten some friendly emails/snail mails demonstrating the error of her thinking.

(Don’t mind me — I have the flu or something.)

Aside from that, all my computers run Linux and will continue running Linux, even if it becomes outlawed. Unless someone wants to pay for the licenses I’d be getting for all ten computers, Linux will forever be the better OS.

That AND the fact that Vista was a step backwards on so many levels, it’s not even funny.

May be not in Texas! MAy be this is the school where the teach you that you don’t need to know anything!

Can they use what is loaded into their brains at birth at least?

If Bush went to this type of School with this type of teacher no wonder he was the worst president ever!

I hope Karen doesn’t teach tech.
You would think several refresher courses and an aptitude test would be the minimal for a teacher, yearly if not bimonthly in this day and age.