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 fabs64 · 2007-02-05 16:18 · Score: -1, Troll

citation needed.
Troll Review by JismTroll · 2007-02-05 16:37 · Score: -1, Troll

Baiting: 4
LOLs: 9.7562
Piss off: 7
First Post +1 Modifier: N/A, you fucking fail it
Overall: 3 out of 5 dongs

Explanation: This was a very lol read and highly offensive, however not authentic-sounding enough to be taken seriously and replied to by anyone but the most fucktarded. This could be improved both by getting FP you fucking n00b and turning it all into the form of a question, or alternatively be less TL;DR.

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