[PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

[Richard Owlett]

On 06/17/2018 06:04 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
>> In that brochure the word "Mac" occurs twice. "Linux" *NEVER* occurs.
>> Keyboarding skills are mentioned. They also ask the question "Does 
>> grammar
>> matter?"
> 
> Richard,
> 
>    Not an answer to your question, but an explanation of what you saw.
> Microsoft and Apple are for-profit companies. The latter gave schools Apple
> IIe computers which produced a couple of generations who equate 'Apple' and
> 'computer.' No one makes money selling linux so there's no incentive to
> mention it.
> 
>    I am constantly amused to read the papers accompanying a piece of
> hardware, such as my new Mediasonic 4-bay external hard drive enclosure,
> that carefully describe its compatability with Windows 7, 8, (probably
> others I've forgotten) and Mac with a minmum OS version number. They don't
> need to include that it's compatible with all flavors of linux, *BSD, and
> similar OSes which, incidently, don't need a cdrom with drivers to use the
> hardware.
> 
>    Forgive your local library.

*NO WAY* !
There's the issue of "academic integrity".
If I'm going to fight a bureaucracy, I need references to someone doing 
it right.

If you disagree, I'll sick on you the ghost of a History professor I had 
in the early 60's.


> As they buy hardware using public funds they
> must follow county purchasing policies. These, most likely, don't mention
> linux at all.
> 
> Rich