Are we educating people in Free Software? (Score 1)

The issue is not about Microsoft vs Linux, I think that even my 9 years old girld told me that the machine that they used at school were different that the linux boxes at my home/office.

The issue is:

Are we telling people about software as speech (de-CSS in English, requires login), or about Open Source as FREE Software.

Recently I handled some people, people who barely knew about computers and internet, social sciences people, "The Cathedral and The Bazaar". The results were amazing. They caught the story completely and now we are discussing the issues with a new light.

My moral would be: tell teachers and parents about the new social values of Cooperative Development and sharing versus cheating, and the battle will be won, no matter if they use Windows. Tell teacher to start cooperative projects, OSS like, using the Internet as a collaborative tool. They will find it a great idea once they catch the concepts (and it's difficult for them to understand the issues). The boys will learn to use the mail to speak, no matter if they use Exchange or even Outlook for that.

That should be our target. When they know about Free Software and how it develops and evolves, they will compare it with propietary solutions, and they will have a clear mind to understand the differences.

Sorry for the evangelic tone, but I feeled truly evangelic ;)