On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would suggest that you don't really understand the reason for > supporting open source. No software running on top of XP, for example, > will free of the pressures form MS to do what they want you to do. And > what they want you to do may have nothing to do with the desires of > teachers and students across the world.
There is another reason. We *are* delivering computers to people unused to them. They are bound to be considered magic gadgets -- so we *will* spawn a significant cargo-cult around them. There are two options: - ensure that the users can figure out that they are free to tinker with the whole stack - give them a corporate-branded black box How many billions would MS give to a foundation that acts as a facade for a MS-branded cultural colonization? It's not wonder that the makers of "The gods must be crazy" put a Coca Cola bottle in the middle of it. Are the rations handed out by UN branded with Golden Arches? cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
