On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 21:11 -0500, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > Thanks Mark, yes - we try to get them to look at alternatives to > > Windoze, > > 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 > > coding.
Hey Brendan,
You might find this essay from the FSF of interest. I very much
recommend it to you. It will expand on and articulate some of the
points J.B. made.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
Yours truly,
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Kip Warner -- Senior Software Engineer
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