[SGVLUG] Recap of last nights presentation

John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com
Mon Apr 13 03:30:42 PDT 2009


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In a posting purporting to be from Stan Slonkosky
<stan.ke6zc at gmail.com> but lacking a digital signature, it was
written:

> ... at a public middle school ... Another guy and I have been have
> been [imaging used Pentium 4 Dell and HP computers] with ... a bunch
> of open source educational software, Open Office ....

Wonderful!  All software to which students are exposed should be open
source.  Proprietary software that a student is forbidden to read has
no place in a school.  Otherwise, it is the brightest students who
will be frustrated by the barriers.

> The district's IT department is grudingly allowing us to do this.

Why "grudingly"?  What's their complaint?

- -- 
 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
 ...who won't use software he's forbidden to read ("reverse engineer").

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