On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Yamaplos . <yamap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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) > Wow I think there are a lot of pressure by the union who see technology as more extra work to teach teachers in the device, probably without extra pay. > (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) > So this is just a wintel strategy like in Chile or will the classmates have a Linux OS like in Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru and/or Argentina. > (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 > I am not sure what that means, anything against china? Do they know everything else including Iphone, Macs, Dell, blackberry and every other computer is made in china as well? > Rwanda they are used as home lights by people who have no electricity > at home - why that is an argument against, really beats me) > I thought that was the argument for it, since there is no electricity that's why the XO was a better unit since it was designed with that in mind. > _______________________________________________ > Lista olpc-Sur > olpc-...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* EspaƱol http://es.openoffice.org fingerprint: E62B CF77 1BEA 0749 C0B8 50B9 3DE6 A84A 68D0 72E6
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