i don't think that he should try to scare them, it's not the target. teenagers will simply revolt and wont listen to him.
2011/1/10 Etzion Bar-Noy <eza...@tournament.org.il> > These kids are used to these four freedoms, illegal, but works fir them. > > You may want to stress that their current (probable) actions are illegal, > and that the existing model of selling software is one which changes into > selling services. Talk about the ability to avoid vendor-lock, as part of it > (give them an example of a bug in the software and what they can do with it > - commercial software vs OSS software). > > These kinds of things, I think. > > Ez > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Uri Even-Chen <u...@speedy.net> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:35, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > hi, >> > >> > in the school of my son they are interested in getting some 1 hour long >> > presentations from parents about various interesting subject. >> > >> > I could talk hours and days about Linux and Open Source in general >> > but I wonder what do you think. What would be interesting to 13 year >> > old kids? >> > >> > I am not sure "free speech" is interesting to them and unfortunately >> > they are probably used to that every software is "free beer". >> > Given the cheats and cracks. >> > >> > So what do you think? >> >> I would recommend speaking about the "free as in freedom" concept of >> Linux and open source software - the 4 freedoms a software user should >> have, and that copying a software and giving a copy to your friend, >> modifying software etc. are basic freedoms anyone should have. Then >> speak about how Linux evolved, history of Linux and the status of >> Linux today. >> >> When I first started to learn programming, in 1983, I didn't know >> nothing about free software, open source software etc. Only after >> participating in open source conferences in 2001 and 2002 and reading >> the book "free as in freedom" (about Richard Stallman) I realized the >> "free as in freedom" concept and its advantages. Even today I'm still >> using non-free software such as Windows and Microsoft Office, but >> today I understand more about it than 10 years ago. >> >> Uri Even-Chen >> Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 >> E-mail: u...@speedy.net >> Website: http://www.speedy.net/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "the debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control" Bruce Schneier
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