One Laptop Per Child - Have you heard of a stupider idea?
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2142974/100-laptop-poor-kids
Yeah, I'm serious, one laptop per child. Let me ask you something, how in the world did children learn before laptops were invented? There are so many better things we can spend our money on besides laptop computers, which according to this article, is just a tool to push the open-source anti-capitalism agenda of the linux community. They say it themselves. "We can offer them for $100 because we'll cut cost in manufacturing, advertising and especially in profit."
Well toot toot for you, aren't you especially noble? So you're giving kids laptops loaded with an OS that no one except bug-eating geeks can use. You know the first thing these kids will do with them? Try and load video games on them. Then when they find out that no one develops games for open source systems, they'll promptly toss the computer in the trashcan and log onto mom and dad's computer which doesn't require a 10-inch thick owners manual to use.
Either this is just some ruse to push linux further out into the public (because no one in their right mind would pay for it at a store, and only geeks know how to install and use it) or they're hoping to get these kids to become open-source developers who hate profit.
Yeah, I'm serious, one laptop per child. Let me ask you something, how in the world did children learn before laptops were invented? There are so many better things we can spend our money on besides laptop computers, which according to this article, is just a tool to push the open-source anti-capitalism agenda of the linux community. They say it themselves. "We can offer them for $100 because we'll cut cost in manufacturing, advertising and especially in profit."
Well toot toot for you, aren't you especially noble? So you're giving kids laptops loaded with an OS that no one except bug-eating geeks can use. You know the first thing these kids will do with them? Try and load video games on them. Then when they find out that no one develops games for open source systems, they'll promptly toss the computer in the trashcan and log onto mom and dad's computer which doesn't require a 10-inch thick owners manual to use.
Either this is just some ruse to push linux further out into the public (because no one in their right mind would pay for it at a store, and only geeks know how to install and use it) or they're hoping to get these kids to become open-source developers who hate profit.
posted by tammo21 at 7:52 AM
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