Teachers Need an Open Source Education

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @11:20PM from the yer-darn-tootin' dept.

palegray.net writes "Teachers are sorely in need of an education in what open source software is, what it isn't, and how it can benefit their students. A recent news story at the Reg discussed the case of a Texas teacher who accused those distributing Linux to students of committing criminal acts. A HeliOS blog entry exposes a 'higher education' culture of apathy, lies, and fear of open source software. Things have got to improve, and that improvement needs to start with misguided teachers getting their facts straight."

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Re:Helios Blog Entry Is Crap! by Bearhouse · 2009-01-29 00:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

Mod up! I'm a big fan of both Linux and OO, but a lot of people seem to have a dangerously smug attitude towards security. As they get more popular, especially with non-expert users, more vulnerabilities will be found and exploited.
Still, the FOSS community does have a good record of discovering and fixing severe problems quickly IMHO.