French Kids Get OSS on USB Sticks

Posted by Zonk on Monday February 5, 2007 @03:49PM from the fun-way-to-travel dept.

daria42 writes "To help make kids aware of alternatives to proprietary software the Ile-de-France, the political district of greater Paris, will give 175,000 school children and apprentices USB keys loaded with open-source software. With a word-processing program, audio and video playback capabilities, an email client and an IM client, these are essentially computers on a stick. The council touts this as 'represent[ing] for students a tool of freedom and mobility between their school, cybercafes and their home or friends' PCs'." With the prevalence of internet cafes in Europe, that might work better than in the US ... but do you think such a project would work here as well? If so, what software would you want to see loaded up?

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Re:There is more.... by Petrushka · 2007-02-05 15:57 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Yes, and absolutely everyone without exception who is involved in backing this has anti-Americanism as their sole motivation.

Please, get over yourself.
Re:There is more.... by Lehk228 · 2007-02-05 16:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

were you dropped on your head as a child?

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Re:There is more.... by Bastard+of+Subhumani · 2007-02-05 22:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Only a small proportion are anti-American; the majority are Anti-everyone-who-isn't-French.

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