What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

[Mordecha Behar]

I'd say maybe to stress the idea of customization.
Since the source is open, you can make it do whatever you want.
Kids (especially teenagers) are really into stamping their own personal mark
on the world around them. With open source software (and the skills) they
can do that.
Then of course there's the "The program doesn't do *exactly* what I want, so
I'll tweak it until it does" issue which might appeal to them.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> in the school of my son they are interested in getting some 1 hour long
> presentations from parents about various interesting subject.
>
> I could talk hours and days about Linux and Open Source in general
> but I wonder what do you think. What would be interesting to 13 year
> old kids?
>
> I am not sure "free speech" is interesting to them and unfortunately
> they are probably used to that every software is "free beer".
> Given the cheats and cracks.
>
> So what do you think?
>
> regards
>   Gabor
>
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