Friday, June 09, 2006
A post to digg
I admire this project immensely, ok the poorer countries need clean water and a good diet, this project will not supply these things directly, but if these laptops can be connected to the 'net, the people can learn the skill sets necessary, so as to be able to create clean water and a good diet. This project can bypass the problems with normal aid projects, that being aid money being siphoned off by fat cats, or suits in the aid charities, paying themselves inflated salaries.
The other exciting thing about this is - because it will teach the kids what source code is. I'm fairly sure, if western electorates, understood what the difference between open source and closed source was, in terms of an operating system, would not vote for it.
I am still astonished that in the last American election, the American electorate did not go absolutely ape-shit, about the Diebold machines being closed source. The computer plus the internet, is the most ubiquitus tool ever invented, for putting information in the hands of the ordinary folk.
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The other exciting thing about this is - because it will teach the kids what source code is. I'm fairly sure, if western electorates, understood what the difference between open source and closed source was, in terms of an operating system, would not vote for it.
I am still astonished that in the last American election, the American electorate did not go absolutely ape-shit, about the Diebold machines being closed source. The computer plus the internet, is the most ubiquitus tool ever invented, for putting information in the hands of the ordinary folk.
Join in the debate here
