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French Kids Get OSS on USB Sticks
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?
I guess that means that my K-Fed CD is a a CD player on a CD.
No, but it does mean your K-Fed CD is something else on-a-stick.
VOTE!
French kid 2: "You got USB stick on my OSS!"
... and then they built the supercollider.
s/anti-Americanism/Communism/
France has fallen to the Bitskrieg! Long said to be secure behind the impregnable Maginot-soft Windows line, the French will now have to face the humiliation of watching Richard M. Stallman parade down the Champs d'USB.
Don't trust anyone under thirty.
Perhaps in the near future I'll decide that I've had enough of Slashdot.
It's there, just that by the time you get through half of the batter you end up throwing the thing away before you get to it.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Inna bun at half price, and that's cutting me own throat.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
The poster obviously doesn't understand what a computer is and the relationship between a computer and its software... Calling a USB stick preloaded with software a "computer on a stick" is like calling a filled gas can a "car in a can".
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
This sort of thing is happenning all over the world, including the US and many other English speaking nations.
But suddenly, because its France, its due to anti-Americanism (in spite the fact that many of the distributed apps are written in the US) and anti-English (although all commercial equivilants to the distributed apps have french localisation).
Exactly!
Damn French! Most English people have been anti-American for ages but all of a sudden, along come the French, gain all the credit and manage to make it look cool in the process!
I demand other nations, beyond the French, get equal credit for loathing the current American administration.
so you mean it's a stick...
29 mpg. YMMV.
and renaming the "USB" sticks the "FrenchB" sticks . . .Take that you darn Americans!
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