Hi Fred, > http://www.divshare.com/download/2205748-36f
Richard Stallman is a controversial figure in many open source communities - more so in the BSD community. Prominently covering him in the first paragraph and adopting the FSF language heavily makes it hard for you to get cooperation from the broader set of people, who share the same set of goals as you do (bringing free software to schools). Adopting a more moderate and simpler language and crediting FSF and RMS for their work might get you more suggestions and helpful emails. Also, some thought provoking articles (eg: what went wrong with the simputer?) that deal with "what is the most cost effective way to get computers to kids, so they do something useful with them" and why the Indian government rejected OLPC would probably win you some valuable audience. I bought a very nice 15 inch Toshiba laptop running Windows Vista Home for $350 a few weeks ago. It comes will all kinds of features - including probably virtualization. The reason I bought it (it's the only windows machine in my home now) is, I was tired of getting shut out of content because I was not running windows. I'm sure many of these kids want to install their windows only games on these machines first (speaking from first hand experience here). And allowing them to do that might just bring enough emotional attachment with the computer to make them curious about how it works. Perhaps OLPC + Linux is the way to go for India. I simply don't know. But critically examining the alternatives (eg: $350 windows laptop) would make your articles a lot more credible to a broader audience. Who knows, the best way to bring the benefits of free software to these kids might be running Linux or BSD in a virtual machine running on windows? -Arun _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
