Because they do not like the Intel Classmate computers the City Government of La Paz gave them, on Tuesday Sept 27 the La Paz union of parents of schoolchildren blockaded the main highway between La Paz and El Alto, with one woman injured due to the tires being burned.
"they are made in China and designed to last only one year", is said about these laptops in the linked article, with a picture of one of the Classmate units. http://eldiario.net/noticias/2011/2011_09/nt110928/5_03nal.php (some of us don't like the Classmates, but to go out and riot because of that, I believe is a first) (of course things are a bit more complex, because it mostly has to do with who got "bought" by Wintel and who didn't get the sweet - no one in the debate, on either side, cares much about deeper issues of reliability, relevance, responsibility - I've met personally the people in the City Government, and can vouch of this, alas) (the mention of China as country of origin proves how much knowledge is owned - at my last meeting there what seemed to be the biggest argument against the XO by the BO Ministry of Education was that in Rwanda they are used as home lights by people who have no electricity at home - why that is an argument against, really beats me) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
