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On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 12:01, Yu, Jerry wrote:
> you said it, George.
> 
> # -----Original Message-----
&gt; # From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of
&gt; # George Carless
&gt; # Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:57 AM
&gt; # To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
&gt; # Subject: Re: [ale] teaching opportunity
&gt; # 
&gt; # 
&gt; # On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:30:14AM -0400, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
&gt; # &gt; I believe we have effectively run off the teacher 
&gt; # lady...... I say we give the job
&gt; # &gt; to the senior in high school.
&gt; # 
&gt; # Unfortunately, while I understand the rationale behind the 
&gt; # responses that she was 
&gt; # given, I think that this list came across as rather arrogant 
&gt; # and overbearing.  
&gt; # Result: another person put off running Linux, and upset by 
&gt; # the Linux community.  
&gt; # There might well be good reasons for running the course on a 
&gt; # Windows platform - say, 
&gt; # because the training centre wasn't currently geared up for 
&gt; # running Linux, or because 
&gt; # some element of what they have in place for training 
&gt; # currently requires Linux 
&gt; # software.  Either way, it can be useful to move people 
&gt; # towards free software - PHP, 
&gt; # MySQL, etc. - on a gradual basis, and it's not necessarily 
&gt; # essential or even 
&gt; # advisable to introduce people to these things on a platform 
&gt; # that is alien to them.  
&gt; # And I would suggest that the individual was likely looking 
&gt; # for an instructor to set 
&gt; # at least part of the curriculum, so while the description of 
&gt; # the course may have been 
&gt; # ambitious and perhaps inaccurate, this was hardly a reason 
&gt; # for an all-out offensive.
&gt; # 
&gt; # In short, I think that some of you have simply succeeded in 
&gt; # coming across as rather 
&gt; # immature elitists who would prefer an argument to a 
&gt; # constructive effort to actually 
&gt; # move people over to using free software.  Ms. Bell repeatedly 
&gt; # indicated that further 
&gt; # discussion could take place off-list with any interested 
&gt; # parties, and I honestly 
&gt; # cannot blame her if she didn't want to get embroiled in a 
&gt; # flamewar on some frankly 
&gt; # rather pedantic points.
&gt; # 
&gt; # --George
&gt; # --------------------------------------
&gt; # George Carless ... kafka at antichri.st
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