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New President for OLPC Organization
haroldag writes "After Walter Bender's resignation as president of OLPC, Charles Kane enters to take his place as the new boss. Kane says 'The OLPC mission is a great endeavor, but the mission is to get the technology in the hands of as many children as possible. Whether that technology is from one operating system or another, one piece of hardware or another, or supplied or supported by one consulting company or another doesn't matter. It's about getting it into kids' hands. Anything that is contrary to that objective, and limits that objective, is against what the program stands for.'"
RMS has blogged about the harm non free software will do to OLPC
RMS is a socialist and like all socialists he's absolutely convinced that the only way there can be freedom is if there is no ownership.
Well, he should be happy then, with the third world, because, they don't own any food, they don't own any water, they don't own any housing and they have no property at all, so therefor, they are dirt poor.
Maybe all of these people that bitch about property, should live where there is none, and see what its all about.
This is my sig.
Honestly, the whole thing felt like it was a gigantic ego trip on Negroponte's behalf from the start. Something just never quite felt right about the project.
It also always felt far too..... "colonial"
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose