No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever

An anonymous reader writes "In a move going largely unnoticed by developers, the OLPC project now requires all submissions to be hosted in the RedHat Fedora project. While this may not seem like a big deal, the implications are interesting. First, contributors have to sign the Fedora Project Individual Contributor License Agreement. By being forced to submit contributions to the Fedora repository they automatically fall under the provisions of US export law. So, no OLPC for Cuba, Syria and the like. Ever."

Comments

Altruism doesn't exist

[athloi]

Altruism triggers pleasure centers like a drug or sex, which means that we do altruistic acts for ourselves, not for others. So don't expect the OLPC folks to cry out over this one. The original OLPC group wanted to construe themselves as philanthropists, and now Intel and others are moving in to scoop up this "new market." There are no gifts without strings.

Re:This is another triumph of politics...

[Kohath]

What's the reward for goodwill towards murderous enemies again? Does it make European elites send you a birthday card or something? Can we drink organic cocktails at the enlightenment club while turning a blind eye toward the suffering that results? Do we get a 2% discount on a Prius?

OLPCs for the facists

[dokhebi]

I was going to comment on this topic, but I realized that most of the people who have their comments visible are of the mind that: a) economic sanctions don't work, and b) military action doesn't work.

I guess that these people believe the only way to make the world a better place is to toke up, hand out folowers, drop your pants and bend over. All this gets you is butt-fucked before before decaptitation.

See you all in hell.

As always, just by $0.02 worth.

Re:for always and eternity

[(A)*(B)!0_-]

That's hilarious, really. Almost as funny as saying something like, "Boy, I'd be really happy if there weren't any Chinese allowed on the bus I take to work." Or perhaps, "Say, those Poles sure do smell bad. Let's wipe them off the face of the Earth."

It's great that prejudice like that is so accepted on Slashdot but I am sick and tired of it. Why don't you keep your hate speech to yourself?

Re:for always and eternity

[Gospodin]

Castro lives in a shack compared to the average upper middle class in the US.

Dude, get real. Castro runs the country as a dictator. If he says, "Go from point A to point B" and you don't do it, you're tossed in prison - no oversight at all. This means he effectively owns the entire asset base of the country. You can argue until you're blue in the face about his "austere lifestyle" and how "his net worth is zero", but the simply fact is that he controls billions of dollars worth of assets.

Schools have better computers than banks in Cuba.

This may well be true. Of course, the banks use abacuses.