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."

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Don't talk about responsibility when you have none

[dharbee]

"US citizens are responsible for the actions of their government."

And you are responsible for admitting your lies. I proved in black and white that you are a liar, so why haven't you done the right thing and admitted it?

Right here is the proof, why aren't you taking responsibility for your lies?

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=242723&cid =19680995

Admit your lies please.

Re:Good.

[corbettw]

There are some interesting points in here. There are a few things I want to rehash, though:

This "choice" is due to the inaccessibility by price of private insurance to individuals as opposed to plans bundled with corporate employment.

This is generally true (though not as much as many think, private insurance is sometimes cheaper than that offered by employers, especially mine). However, it doesn't remove the fact that, to many people, being "their own boss" is more important than anything else. If health insurance were more important, they would work for a larger company, or make sacrifices somewhere else in their budget, to get that insurance.

As for children who aren't covered, I should have brought this up before: there already exist programs for children to get free or cheap health insurance, if their parents don't have their own for whatever reason. So any children who are not currently covered are not because their parents have not signed up for these programs, perhaps due to ignorance of their existence. So the solution isn't to create a monstrous bureaucracy, it is to inform people of the choices they have available to them already.

And, no, I'm not referring to Medicaid, I'm referring to programs run by states to provide private health insurance to children.