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Re: Confusion about legality of Linux



Nate Bargmann said...
> * Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net> [2008 Dec 10 06:54 -0600]:
> > 2008/12/10 Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>

> > My feeling is that she should have investigated whether this really
> > was a "disturbance" before intervening. It is not clear to me that the
> > action she took was "needed". Hence my comment.
> 
> Like me you're probably not an authority figure, there fore our
> reaction would be quite different.  Her training and mindset are that
> of authority figure and her actions as described were consistent with
> authority figures as I recall from my youth.

But she is, above all, an educator. That trumps authority, at least it 
does in schools; after all, is the priority of a school to educate or to 
discipline? And if educators these days are scared of the new, then 
heaven help us.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc


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