Follow-Up: Russian School Teacher Facing Labor Camp

Elrac

Thu Feb 08 10:15:51 -0800 2007

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Teachers aren't happy, because they don't know anything about Linux and there is no one around to help them.

One moment while I pull out the world's tiniest fiddle.

If they know enough to order up a free Ubuntu CD and get it running on an Internet-capable PC, then they can get help with everything else. It's not like Linux is a deep dark secret or something. Or running Open Office requires a PhD.

Aside from a few gasps about teachers actually being required to give more than lip service to "continuing education," I consider this a very wholesome development. With the Russian school system teaching/learning OSS, I expect a wealth of useful contributions to the usefulness of said software.

Also, if Russian bureaucracy is anything like what I think it is, it will be years before this directive is resolved, confirmed and enforced countrywide.

Follow-Up: Russian School Teacher Facing Labor Camp

Bhima

Thu Feb 08 12:27:09 -0800 2007

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more over not knowing Linux isn't a permanent condition.  This is a school and they're teachers so you'd think that they would.. well... learn.

Follow-Up: Russian School Teacher Facing Labor Camp

wowbagger

Thu Feb 08 14:49:32 -0800 2007

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more over not knowing Linux isn't a permanent condition. This is a school and they're teachers so you'd think that they would.. well... learn.

No No NO! Teachers TEACH, students LEARN. If teachers start learning, then they are students. And since it will likely be the students who will be teaching them, then the students will be teachers.

And that's just wrong. Next thing you know, you'll have disasters of biblical proportions — dogs and cats living in sin, mass hysteria!

Follow-Up: Russian School Teacher Facing Labor Camp

DrkShadow

Thu Feb 08 15:46:54 -0800 2007

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*Ahem*

In Soviet Russia, Students...

ah, screw it. I hate those lines. Fill in the blank for yourself. *cough*

-DrkShadow

Follow-Up: Russian School Teacher Facing Labor Camp

pyro9

Thu Feb 08 17:12:59 -0800 2007

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It is sad that there are teachers who hate to learn, apparently more than they hate the risk of 5 years in a labor camp.

Really most X GUIs are not fundamentally different than Windows, just a few things in different places. It shouldn't be any more difficult than getting used to a new floor layout when changing jobs or moving.

Beyond that, of course, those who are willing to learn a bit more can benefit from a far more expressive text interface.

easier target than the...

zogger

Thu Feb 08 13:56:36 -0800 2007

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...mob, the guys who stamp out hundreds of thousands of copies for profit. Them boys fight back, cops or no cops, or they might even be the cops, or in the army, or the FSB. either way, they don't like having their rubles messed with and have been known to be rather proactive about it.

So-they pick on some defenseless teacher and some schools, etc. Boy, that's some manly men there! That'll show them durn pirates, we'll fine this poor teacher a years pay and send him to the gulag!

In fact, eventually (I wouldn't be surprised at all really) MS and the BSA and whatnot are going to probably be getting some personal messages from those blackhatskis over there to just backoff and accept the status quo as it is, OR, MS and a host of other digital copy peddlers will realise before this happens that they should drop cost down to maybe double duplification costs, max, for a full legal retail price, as the only practical and *safe* way to deal with their problem of "piracy".

They should do that everywhere, with software, music, movies-whatever.

I really don't think most folks care about paying for stuff-IF it isn't a pure gouge price. Getting obviously gouged seems to invoke the mindset of "ta heck with them crooks, who cares?" in a lot of people around the world.