Praveen A wrote:
Check out this site
www.slynux.co.nr
Dear Praveen,
It is pointless for us to go into all the claims made there about some new "Operating System". Debian and Knoppix have made the task of creating new distros so easy, that we may get to read about new born babies creating new distros by kicking on keyboards with their tender feet :)
The www.slynux.co.nr site says this
<quote> We provide you the best customer service as we can. This is a free software provider. We give you different and different software. We release software per month. The latest software we released is SL E- PeriodicTable.(See products). Our slogan is technology changes day by day. So the software will become free software. You should write to me about our site and products. You can freely install demo version of the software from downloads. After installing you will get serial number from the author, SarathLakshman by a request e-mail. </quote>
When I tried to clip the above quote, a stern javascrip alert said I could not even view source code of the html page! That is obviously cripple ware distributed without source code, and certainly not free software. Ten year olds or 10th standard kids may get away with all this as part of learning or having fun, but it is not the kind of example we could cite or recommend.
It only proves again that we need a curriculum at schools that explains the free software philosophy in a manner the students can understand, so that they become responsible users, and if possible, make sensible contributions to the community.
Regards, Ramanraj.