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Teacher tells students Linux is “illegal” and confiscates their copies
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Smooth-op
2010-05-06 , 12:45
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I would have found this incredible to believe (teacher & linux discs), but last Sunday, while at a lunch, I was talking to a Bank Manager and showing off my N900. Somehow the fact came up that I use Open Office Org suite for writing etc. he suddenly started saying that i was condoning piracy, I mean really getting cross with me.....When I gently explained that actually it was a free program he changed to accusing Sun Systems of plagiary on Microsoft office, and how I was then using illegal software and that Microsoft should sue Sun Systems!!! I was gobsmacked that a person of his calibre could be so incredibly ignorant.
I did finally manage to shut him up with the obvious explanations but I could see that he wasn't convinced!
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