Louis, When I first met REBOL I thought this could be a wonderful tool for all kinds of people to get to know how to exchange information with their machines.
I am not exactly a programmer but someone that works with information using REBOL as my tool of choice to grab all I need from the Internet. I am pretty sure that this project - OLPC - is going to be a revolutionary one as much as REBOL is in a way to make people think differently in many ways. I only think that RT needs to improve some questions related to licensing in order to see REBOL bundled in the distro to be choosed by the OLPC people. 2005/11/4, Louis Gosselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hello List, > > Some food for thoughts: > > Was hearing the other day on the progress of the OLPC (One Laptop Per > Child) initiative from the MIT Media Lab. The plan is to develop a $100 > rugged laptop and distribute it to school kinds in under developed areas. > The system runs Linux, can be "hand crank" power supplied, comes with > cheap > networking options, and feature modest storage (flash memory) and > computing > power (500mhz cpu). > > If that plan delivers, millions of kids will jump in the information age > and, unavoidably, some of them will be driven to do more than just using > someone else's software and will be looking for tools to build their own > stuff. Even if only a tiny fraction of them will go this way, that > represents tens of thousands of individuals. I don't know if the project > will succeed, but if it does (I really wish) , it could have some far > reaching effects on the nature of the software industry. > > So I thought Rebol would be a nice match to the platform. Both are about > no > nonsense, simple, low requirements, efficient computing. Suppose Rebol is > to come bundled with the OLPC laptop. It could become de-facto standard > all > purposes scripting / development tool for the platform. Think what that > would do the Rebol community. Think how it could empower all this people. > > OLPC site: http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ > > Bye, Louis > > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com <http://rebol.com> with unsubscribe as the subject. > > -- *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-: Carlos Lorenz *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-: -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
