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From: abc@BRL.MIL (Brint Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple soft/hardware "lock"
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Date: 31 Oct 88 15:56:54 GMT
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Vernon Williams asks:

> What do you all think? should a computer be modified so that only
> "approved" software can be run on it, when that computer MAY be in an
> educational setting! Should it be done at all????

	I've never seen anyone in the employ of a public Board of
Education who knows any more than a classroom teacher about what
software should be run in an educational setting.  This is a strangely
dangerous precedent and is an unwarrated slur on the abilities of their
teachers.

	In addition, one wonders what the Board of Education fears from
allowing people to run whatever they want on the educational computers.

	Finally, how does one learn programming skills if he or she is
not permitted to run his/her programs on the instructional machine?

	I'm sure glad that I don't live in Ohio!

_Brint