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HeliOS founder says sorry to Windows teacher
HELIOS FOUNDER Ken Starks has said sorry to a school teacher who accused him of trafficking illegal goods to children after she confiscated copies of Linux from a student.
Starks ranted in his bog claiming that the teacher "Karen" was pushing a pro-Microsoft line at the behest of her Volish-backed union.
What Starks didn't realise was that the bog would be read by countless people and "Karen" would become the target of hate for hordes of Linux fanboys.
Starks has said sorry for saying she'd taken a pro-Microsoft line saying he was shocked by the level of responses he'd received to the blog.
Starks had spoken to Karen after she contacted him. She said that when she had heard that an adult had given the student some Linux disks to hand out she thought something dark was up. "Coupled with the fact that she truly was ignorant of honest-to-goodness Free Software, and you have some fairly impressive conclusion-jumping," Starks said.
So why did he say sorry? The story was all true. Karen had told him that students needed to learn Windows, not Linux. She did think that no software was free and that spreading that misconception was harmful.
It seems that Stark feels guilty that he threw another human being to the wolves. Anyway he is using the situation to show Karen how wonderful Linux is. At one point he was going to pop around and install it on her computer. µ
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Roger Ramjet, well said.
Let's hope there is more people like Ken Starks, do the same thing.
He said sorry because he's a businessman.
You never want to be seen as vindictive or emotional in such situations. What he did will be viewed as "unprofessional" or even juvenile by potential or existing clients. As an adult, you are not supposed to react. You are not expected to publically shame people.
Never mind that she deserved it. Heh.
He said he was sorry because she called him on the phone crying. Linux users are not accustomed to crying so it tends to effect them more than Windows users.
... because he is a human being, not a robot. He took his share of responsibility and said sorry. He showed a good example. Let's see if others do the same.
Some of us have the mental capacity to learn other operating systems IN ADDITION to windows.
I think it is important that windows is primarily taught but it shouldn't be the only OS taught you RETART.
If every single person was to ONLY learn windows then that will be the only OS for the rest of our future.
There is nothing wrong with learning Linux AS WELL dick knuckle.
I should start handing out some BSD,Solaris blah blah discs as well.
Go back to your Microsoft centric only world you toss
Ken was careful to not identify the teacher. Even after a posting on Slashdot, no one has found her, as she admitted to Ken. She is not getting hate mail. She only learned about his posting because Ken emailed her.
Most of the world is windows, for better or worse. So how is allowing the use of Linux in a school that teaches Windows actually going to help these kids?
She should be commended for trying to keep them on one topic, not thrown to the wolves as this fanboi retard Linux pusher has done.
The fact that she's getting hate mail and the like from the twats just goes to show the maturity level of those idiots.
Makes my blood boil....
The teacher should be apologizing. If you're a teacher, and you don't know about something, you shouldn't just make things up.
ha ha, Wink wink nudge nudge, unless she's some crotchety old hag.
If one of her students show up with copies of Windows for free, that would be ok then. Paid software is not evil, even when you don't pay for it.
The teacher needs to apologize.
"At one point he was going to pop around and install it on her computer"
I bet he is... ^^