OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is using linux. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Main_Page
That's great, because children will not be poisoned by MS$ stuff.
Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022, India.
Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022, India.
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:37, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is using linux. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Main_Page
OLPC was using Linux since its inception. IIRC it used Fedora Core ever since the first prototypes came out.
That's great, because children will not be poisoned by MS$ stuff.
Not good to make such a statements..
That's great, because children will not be poisoned by MS$ stuff.
Not good to make such a statements..
Hmm... when one looks at it in retrospect its not really that inaccurate. The tobacco companies in the U.S around the 1950's used to give away free packs of ciggarette's to boys around the age of 12-17 years, they even had some very popular ads of a teenage bellboy showing how coll it was to smoke.
The end result was that you had an entire generation hooked on tobacco. Later on when its effects started becoming visible, it was clear that the companies had literally ``poisoned" the children.
Does it sound foul mouthed and harsh? Of course it does! But at times its better to call a spade a spade it fortifies your stand and approach.
Well done Mukund !
Regards,
- vihan
That's great, because children will not be poisoned by MS$ stuff.
Not good to make such a statements..
Actually, I made the statement after reading an article in ET 2 Jan,
In fact one of the saddest but most common condition in elementary school computer lab (when they exist in developing world) is the children are being trained to use word, excel and power point, I consider that as criminal because children should be making things, communicating, exploring, sharing and not running office automation tools. -- Nicholas Negopronte MIT Founder of OLPC project.
I think every one should contribute to the project, to make a better future for our children.
Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022, India.
2007/1/2, Mukund Deshmukh betacomp_ngp@sancharnet.in:
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is using linux.
A different but interesting article by one of the GNU Classpath Developer Roma Kennke http://kennke.org/blog/2006/12/21/one-laptop-per-child/
He thinks what our children really need are:
* Parents. * Time to learn. * Childhood.
and they don't need: * Floods of information and media. * Plastic toys * And certainly, kids don't need a computer
I really liked this article and agree with some of his views.
Regards Praveen
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 19:45, പ്രവീണ്|Praveen wrote:
2007/1/2, Mukund Deshmukh betacomp_ngp@sancharnet.in:
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is using linux.
A different but interesting article by one of the GNU Classpath Developer Roma Kennke http://kennke.org/blog/2006/12/21/one-laptop-per-child/
He thinks what our children really need are:
- Parents.
- Time to learn.
- Childhood.
Yes. But pending delivery of such premium warez, the OLPC will help at least some to morph into more useful vagabonds.
jtd wrote:
Yes. But pending delivery of such premium warez, the OLPC will help at least some to morph into more useful vagabonds.
Without security for the kids, these laptops may end up as expensive presents, getting sold to rich kids due to poverty or for the residential drunkard's drink or money lender's installments or bully snatching it away. They should be in the custody of a school or an institution where the children deposit them before going home.
Regards,
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On Tuesday 02 January 2007 21:17, Rony wrote:
jtd wrote:
Yes. But pending delivery of such premium warez, the OLPC will help at least some to morph into more useful vagabonds.
Without security for the kids, these laptops may end up as expensive presents, getting sold to rich kids due to poverty or for the residential drunkard's drink or money lender's installments or bully snatching it away. They should be in the custody of a school or an institution where the children deposit them before going home.
These are social problems which NOTHING is going to solve. And depriving the vast majority of poor who are responsible for the foibles of a few is worse than the original problem. High risk behaviour is permitted by nature (and society) as means of testing limits. Things like OLPC will help chanellise even such behaviour (make one an olympic boxer rather than a thug).
Regarding the costs, the product is not subsidised. It just gets rid of the marketing, maintanence and legal costs (and the mine is bigger than yours syndrome). However several governments are purchasing it for (free ?) distribution. That is where the subsidy is. As usual expect your regular wheeler dealer poltico to milk it.
Regarding the argument of roti, kapda aur makan, the old fogies on the list will remember when TV's and phones were considered luxuries and charged 40% excise.
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