In case you've been away, there's been a bit of a mini-firestorm over an event that took place last week. It's about a teacher who, upon witnessing one of her students doing a Linux demo for other students and handing out live CDs confiscated then, then started a war. You can read about it on the Blog of Helios or watch my WFTL Bytes! coverage of the event.

Truth be told, I've been thinking about this story a lot more than I thought I would. After all, when I first reported it in my WFTL Bytes!, I made fun of it "Oh, no! Linux is under siege! Should I wear the general's press hat?"  It is, in fact, scary that somebody like Karen thinks as she does (from a FOSS perspective, that is), but she was, as I reasoned then, one person. Hardly an army. 

Then came the explosion of posts, both for and against, in the community. My reaction was surprise, but I found it interesting enough to want ompaul to post his take on it. Which got me thinking, and thinking . . .
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