-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 09/18/2015 06:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Thanks Mark, yes - we try to get them to look at alternatives to Windo ze, > but there's no pressure. While J.B.'s comments are great from a purist > point of view, the OSS goal is orthogonal to the goal of teaching codi ng.
Two objections: 1) It's not a "purist point of view", but the point of view of someone who cares about technological sovereignty. When you learn to drive, you also learn traffic laws. 2) It's not "OSS", but free software--see previous references to >>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html Coding is not just yet another curriculum: it's learning to *realize* ideas, turn them into reality. It's learning about how to learn, and learning how to produce technologies that do not come inside a box from a store. The power of coding (or electronics, or fabrication, or craft for that matter) goes well beyond intellectual knowledge. There are two models for coding: the competitive, and the cooperative; proprietary software, and free software. Certainly free software can be competitive, but proprietary software cannot be cooperative: it forbids the user to contribute to the software, and often forbids the developer to share their code. So I don't think teaching coding is orthogonal to the ethics of inventing technologies. Regards, == hk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJV/IeHXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFQ0IyNkIyRTNDNzEyMTc2OUEzNEM4ODU0 ODA2QzM2M0ZDMTg5ODNEAAoJEEgGw2P8GJg9RSkP/12vcLIo7yJKb0yTM4HQeQK/ VZuaV1GI/xYmu1Ogr8wNGZKDHNH3DdhqPXBi/E6v7fhzjZ7aZhDcmqb2ml+hcprj xrJrTBLWvlMx7yqxiarLRup3yh3V7rHt1h73yO+dp/YLCOFoboa7jmUmhtZ1tm23 py0I+ePuJquA4r0g+JSPO5rnTR2OlogPChJ/7XdYdn7t/QnDI5GfkGNLjITbFJaQ 1hEmejJJcK1SR+cEwguEmWEBYn0c5O5rRd2mJ/EaiKCtHKOo1fesN4kYy2abpbJq uuU7pLxaIWnhsVA2poaCKjOdcg7hxMKliNJst2XYnLNLBfUkBDQ5qL4a3C1xczYJ JN9COXM6JMG+zQg6zEt23dgalLy/NHNYlUuGtjAXc4qIxmmTZ3a99w+54xnqmAC6 3toAxxHj9akvuw290hu6IyaPqRSn191IdqieGqUPI7Dm0wEyrLCgPMW+7bHzfG/Z vD5YPSOUlub5eKD/C9E3ncNnxMh+2Crhv91g4bChPQjfjk65vNOGiio74uaEpdnV 4DZXKqWdpogLvBcc6KrWYRKo0BDgF/I+aZ1LmTjfzwUbXGZB0Iknoe/hpnUNzLzv N79Nlhl/pr4JpSzs4qSUsO8a8oL3TsfFdQrdpoKWN6lxMcGhShl0uaWhVTSHSBcE nsIm0vim2Rbhvx2f4gOw =pmzs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
