* Jack J. Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-05 16:03]:
> > Free and open software is a means to an end, rather than the
> > sole end unto itself for OLPC.
> >
> > I was totally stunned by this admission. "morally bankrupt", as Bob
> > says, is exactly what is going on.
>
> Hmm, sounds like you are saying that abstract goal of unlimited
> software freedom is
> a higher goal than providing access to modern technology to
> disadvantaged children in
> 3rd-world countries. I don't wish to argue that point, but it is
> certainly a point
> that could be debated. Why *would* the OLPC people wish to get their
> dicks caught
> in the struggle between the free-and-open software community and the
> greedheads?
Expediency of the Sudentenland variety.
And the fact that the chinese and brazillians are already doing it.
they'd perfer to offer the disadvantaged a solution controlled by the
good old USA who is after all only interested in Oil^H^H^HTheir welfare.
-Bob
