Red Hat chief calls for idealism, reform, sharing (News.com) [LWN.net]

News.com covers the keynote by Matthew Szulik, Red Hat CEO. "In a one-hour meeting, Szulik said, Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam told the Red Hat chief of his enthusiasm for boosting education in India with open-source software. But Szulik told attendees that he continues to struggle to get his own local schools even to learn how to pronounce Linux."

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Now, that's sad!

Posted Aug 3, 2004 23:11 UTC (Tue) by jre (guest, #2807) [Link]

... Szulik told attendees that he continues to struggle to get his own local schools even to learn how to pronounce Linux.

Much as I admire North Carolinians' pronunciation of just about everything, this is clearly a major gap in their education. I recommend that every mp3 download site begin with a prominent link to the correct pronunciation and that it be kept there until test scores improve.

But do not, I implore you, teach them the Free Software Song.
That might put them off education altogether.