Re:Linux - Stop holding our kids back
by jerf on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @11:07AM
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Two possibilities come to mind: Satire, as mentioned by other people, or the original teacher is lying about having used Linux. As anybody who has been around on the internet (or BBS or Usenet or...) for a while has learned, some people take a very scorched-earth approach to argumentation, and if lying about having tried Linux bolsters the argument, in it goes, regardless of whether it's true. (Maybe.)
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It's also possible that the she was forced to use Unix in college. As she is not a techie, and probably wouldn't pay a very large amount of attention to the details, mixed the two up.
Re:Linux - Stop holding our kids back
by Network_Punk on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @03:15PM
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The way I read it she had to use the command line when she was in college, and thinks the GUI is "stolen" from Windows. (Hence the concern about legality)
Re:Linux - Stop holding our kids back
by stcredzero on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @11:36AM
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...some people take a very scorched-earth approach to argumentation, and if lying about having tried Linux bolsters the argument, in it goes, regardless of whether it's true.
I find this idea onerous, though I strongly suspect it's true.
I wonder if someone could start a public forum that's a "Truth Zone?" Is it even possible? Wikipedia works well enough. Maybe their techniques would enable this?