-------- Original Message ------- Dear Open Knowledge Foundation,
Greetings from Boston Review! We thought you and your blog readers might be interested in an article in the new issue of Boston Review. Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and GNU developer, chastises One Laptop Per Child for backing away from its promise to run only free software in favor of a Microsoft-subsidized version of Windows. "Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a world where only one company sells tobacco," he writes. "Even the OLPCs delivered with GNU/Linux will be easy to convert subsequently to Windows. It only requires a small card that is supposed to cost $7. (I expect Microsoft will hand these out to the kiddies like free samples of cigarettes.)" You can read the article here: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.6/stallman.php Please feel free to forward this piece along as you see fit. Thanks for your time and attention. Best, Katie Koch Editorial Assistant Boston Review _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
