That's right a student was showing some friends his copy of Helios distro linux at school when his teacher Karen flipped her lid. Why you may ask? Well Karen told her student she did not agree with software that was free she figured because it was free it must be illegal. It was at this point this educator decided to confiscate her students property. Did she stop there? oh no, no she didn't she went one step further to solidify her ignorance. She decided to write a letter to Helios Linux and proceeded to tell then she was going to report them for illegal activity and then informed them they were ruining students by taking there focus off of windows. Click read more to see the letter.

"...observed one of my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop. Upon looking at his computer, I saw he was giving a demonstration of some sort. The student was showing the ability of the laptop and handing out Linux disks. After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows. Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.

This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them..."

Karen xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxx Middle School
AISD

THe retort to this is so very very impressive I have a new found love for linux after this article check out Helios's quick witted reply here.

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