Here is an update for the 4th day of class, he called Windows Open Source, called the Hard Drive ROM some more, called BOIS Binary Output/Input System. Said when your RAM is full it sends data to the ROM for temp. storage. (again, what part of READ ONLY?!). Said that if you use Open Source Software or edit Open Source Software the modification has to be Open Source also, same idea with Public Domain Software.
Then this nice little heart to heart (during our break):
Me: "How is a hard drive ROM? You WRITE to a hard drive which then is not ROM."
Him: " Because you don't run the programs in your hard drive..."
Me: "But.....you still WRITE to a hard drive, you still Write when you add or remove programs to the hard drive, infact if you want to do the library exemple...."
Him: "Well a library can add and remove books...."
me: "...ROM is the National Archives unless your Bush you can't go in and edit the Constitution when ever you like...."
Him: *snickers*
Me:"...A hard drive would be a personal library, where you can add, edit, delete, and make your own books as you please. A Basic Output Input System is ROM, a hard drive allows for the writing of data..."
Him: *pauses*......"well you still can't run programs on your hard drive which makes it ROM."
Me: "Okay" and I leave to talk to a student I know.
As I pass by the teacher he saids "Well you got to think about the running of programs" (or something like that.
As side notes he also called HTML a programming language, and our book called Lindow[sic] a GUI.