Hi Bryan, > Developing learning activities requires the developer already know > something about programming. In Nepal, China, India that means they > have at least a pirated copy of Windows and possibly Adobe Flash. > If they have linux, that means that some time ago they had pirated > Windows which they used to learn about linux.
That sounds plausible, at least for pirated Windows. (I'm sure it's much harder to get a copy of Flash.) I'm not willing to incorporate "First, get a pirated copy of Windows and Flash" into my instructions for activity development, though. We're supposed to be combating the inequity that says "we can create things on our computers because we're rich, but you don't get to do that on yours without breaking the law because you're poor". That inequity is just as much a part of the digital divide as everything else we're trying to bridge over, in my opinion. It feels important to me to be able to say "Here's a software platform for you to start out with, and here's all of the software we used in the process of making it, which means there's nothing stopping you from learning to further it yourself". A true passing on of knowledge from one group to another, as equals. I imagine this is the kind of debate where no-one really changes their mind; that's okay. As long as the viewpoint of software freedom as a foundational principle for Sugar (even in the face of extra convenience) is being represented and considered, I'm happy. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
