Linux Class at Communiversity

[Oren Beck]

>From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>
>To: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: Re: Linux Class at Communiversity
>Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 10:40:50 -0600

>On Friday, January 02, 2004 09:41 pm, Oren Beck wrote:
>
> > A suggestion if time , tools , and materials allow would be a " basic
> > ntework cables " lesson . 
>
>How is that relevant to basic Linux?
>
The Relevance comes from how information is handled in Open Source Vs Closed 
Source .

In an Open Source model there is ZERO value from " why learn that detail ? " 
foundations .
The conceptual model most worthy is  *  IF *  one wishes to learn details- 
the information should be not only open but offered . I have seen the shift 
from Heathkit to Xbox and it does not bode well for us . A good friend from 
the UK was despondent and shaken bitterly upon hearing that appliances now 
came only with the mains plug hardwired on . That was over 16 years ago .
The net has now become a utility dependency service . The UK treats mains 
plugs as OEM only .

http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Safety_in_Mains_circuits_(GCSE_science)

Do please forgive the seeming digression but the " focus " factor is that 
Open Vs Closed DEFINES why Linux users should be given the widest usable 
information base . Not forced -just shown .
The below as example .

http://www.ertyu.org/~steven_nikkel/ethernetcables.html

We are not going to make a dent in the appliance operator mindset unless we 
try .
All we can do is hope that we slow the descent into a shrinkwrapped world .

Oren

" Why  did the chicken cross the Moeibus strip ?  "

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