Mitch Bradley wrote: > I know quite a few children in the US who benefit from laptops running a > proprietary stack. > > Web access is the core capability that transforms the computer from a > convenience to a near necessity. > > Before the web, most people in developed countries had computers at work > for doing "Office" > stuff, but only a fraction of households had them. > > "activities" will hold children's attention for some time, but in the > long term, the desire to > access all of the world's information will persist long after the > activities become boring. > > Suppose, as a thought experiment, that someone were to propose giving > every child in the world > a device that could do nothing but access the web. Would you consider > that a positive > educational step? > > I would. > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
None of what you have said above has anything to do with a proprietary stack. Why does the web experience have to be beneficial via a proprietary stack? The web is what it is because it conforms to open standards. HTML comes to mind... Speaking of proprietary stack, remember AOL and Compuserve? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel