Severn Cullis-Suzuki on Wikipedia.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born November 30, 1979 in Vancouver, Canada) is an environmental activist, speaker, television host and author. Born to writer Tara Elizabeth Cullis and geneticist and environmental activist David Suzuki, she has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind, and take individual responsibility.
She’s 12 yrs old in the video, I thought her delivery was excellent. Unfortunately in nearly all schools these days computers running proprietary software are used to teach children that sharing is wrong and its ok if your forbidden from learning how things work in that environment because apparently thats the way the world works. Its not something I agree with. Sometimes I still hang out with teachers online but its not really the same as working with them.
I met Dean Groom on Secondlife. He makes things happen.
Enter a conversation with Jokaydian Gnu Curry. A week or so later, our OpenSim is operational, all be it in a testing phase. Right now we’re reading as much as we can … and using the SL Client to view OpenSim…Read more
Though perhaps those students can cut even more costs using open source games like nexuiz, tremulous, Flightgear, Scorched 3D, GNU Chess and Frozen Bubble.
Its late, I’m tired, thanks for reading.
I found an explanatory diagram by Chao-Kuei, which explains the different categories of Free and Non-Free Software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html perhaps a useful starting point for anyone not familiar with the terms used in this blog post.