[TriLUG] book for kids on open source philosophy?

[Mike Norwood]

I also really liked "Little Brother", but would not really recommend for a 
10 year old.  For a teenager definitely.  I read an actual physical paper 
book copy of this, but it is available online legally for free under a 
Creative Commons license in lots of formats.  Google search should find a 
link through Cory Doctorow website craphound.com to download it. Also, it 
includes lots of linux usage.

Mike

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Neil L. Little wrote:

> Little brother, I liked very much. It caused me to think of security in a 
> much different way. I also look at government in a much different way. I 
> think Heinlein applies.
> A warning, its subversive ... in a good way ... depending on your world view.
>
> 73,
> Neil, WA4AZL
>
> Jack Hill wrote:
>>  The interwebs also inform me of the existence of a Ubuntu manga:
>>
>>  http://divajutta.com/doctormo/ubunchu/
>>
>>  and a young adult book by Cory Doctorow
>>
>>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Cory_Doctorow_novel)
>>
>>  I haven't read either, so can't talk to how useful or appropriate they
>>  are.
>>
>>  Jack
>>
>>  On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Jack Hill wrote:
>> 
>> >  For your own education (and perhaps for the child as it grows older) I 
>> >  recommend _Free Software Free Society_ 
>> >  <http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society-2/>. It's a 
>> >  collection of short essays by rms about software freedom.
>> > 
>> >  10 years old is old enough to start learning to program. Perhaps set the 
>> >  child up with a GNU/Linux environment, and then find simple, real-world, 
>> >  programs to study (perhaps KDE plasmoids or emacs modes).
>> > 
>> >  Good luck.
>> > 
>> >  Perhaps we need to have a TriLUG family day.
>> > 
>> >  Jack
>> > 
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