On 26/05/10 1:27 PM, Steven O'Reilly wrote: > I'm not sure where to begin trying to fix that!
It is a bit beyond the realm of mere mortals. A few people have tried I think. Money and politics. The DER netbooks get all the headlines but they are not the whole story. We are one of the richest countries in the world and I would be surprised if most kids didn't already have access to a computer at home along with a console or two and a selection of mobile phones. So its not like the bad old days when all they saw from birth to graduation was Microsoft PowerPoint. The kids who are really forgotten and need a big hand live in remote indigenous communities and OLPCs are going to some of them - fully open source stack where it counts and hopefully will be appreciated. There is a lot people can do at a local level to engage with the community including schools and teachers and make a difference. Everyone loves TuxPaint, Inkscape, Audacity etc. These netbooks will all be in landfill in 3 years. All the spoilt kids are going to be a lot more interested in their Android phones, iPads, HP WebOS Slates and ChromeOS devices than running Photoshop on an old spyware laden machine with the grunt of a PentiumIII and probably half an hour of battery life by then. The future is not all rosy if nobody is able to challenge Apple but a few more years and Microsoft Windows will not be a serious player anymore if current trends hold. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
