I hope most of you are familiar with “helios”, and all he’s done for Linux.
This post, dated yesterday, is almost scary: Blog of helios.
To think that a teacher, who is responsible for helping children learn and grow, can be so out-of-touch with reality. It saddens me.
Like one of the follow-on comments says, “I have rarely seen a worse, more damaging ignoramus….”
Linux (or Gnu/Linux, as RMS would have me say) is Free Software. That is to say, the Gnu tools, the Linux Kernel, and most of the rest of the software, is licensed under the GPL (the Gnu General Public License, sometimes called a copyleft), which is considered a “Free” license. (Technically, a given copy of the Linux kernel may not be entirely Free, as it may contain some proprietary binary “blobs” to aid in wireless network connectivity and certain video card drivers.) Indeed, several totally “Free” distros exist,and several popular distros also provide Free versions.
But what is Free Software? (more…)
