Thanks to all who made the FSF change this. - Bert -
On 02.09.2009, at 08:14, Bill Kerr wrote: > Yes the new paragraph is more reasonable: > > Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs, in an > attempt to get them to replace the free software with Windows. It > remains to be seen to what degree Microsoft will succeed. But with > all of this pressure, Microsoft has harmed a project that has > distributed more than 1 million laptops running free software, and > has taken aim at the low-cost platform as a way to make poor > children around the world dependent on its products. The OLPC > threatens to become another example of the way Microsoft convinces > governments around the world that an education involving computers > must be synonymous with an education using Windows. In order to > prevent this, it is vital that we work to raise global awareness of > the harm Microsoft's involvement does to our children's education. > >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Bobby Powers >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> in any case, the text appears to be fixed now in a much more >> reasonable fashion. >> >> bobby >> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Sebastian > Silva<[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/8/31 Walter Bender <[email protected]> > >> > >> I don't think anyone on this list was suggesting that Windows on > OLPC > >> was/is a good/appropriate solution for learning. But there is a > free > >> software alternative, Sugar, that is designed to be appropriated by > >> the local community/culture. We were asking, why doesn't the FSF > >> promote alternatives (Sugar or some other free learning platform) > in > >> parallel with their anti-cultural-imperialism message? > >> > >> -walter > >> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
