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Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows
Reader Cowards Anonymous writes with this excerpt from Good Gear Guide: "Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project's (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an agreement for pilot programs in two towns. Schools in the towns of Quetame and Chia will be outfitted with the small green XO laptops developed by the OLPC. The pilot programs are expected to expand over time."
You know, as one of those prototypical evil world-dominating US citizen types, I should be happy that, vis-a-vis Microsoft, we're enslaving the world to an American-made product. Nevermind that it's second-rate and vastly inferior to Linux in more aspects than I care to count. Nevermind that it'll end up hurting innovation and the pocketbooks of third-world countries barely struggling to bring themselves upwards. They'll all be dependent on us!
Then again, I realize that damnit, it's a colossal waste of potential, energy, and resources... not to mention money.
Forget all the ephemeral left-leaning talking points bandied about concerning resentment towards the USA - thanks to intentionally crippling developing nations with Windows, future generations are gonna hate us more than you can ever imagine...
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
I agree. Why inflict an OLPC on some poor little kids? Especially since it's a vaporware product.
The best alternative would have been going with the Intel Classmate with Windows XP. The Classmate gives the locals at least temporary jobs assembling the machines, the machines come with support (unlike the YOYO [yer on yer own] support offered by the XO), and best of all, the kids still get exposure to an operating system which will not have them locked out of the worldwide marketplace (both jobs and ideas).
Sad day for Columbia, but good day for NeoCons like Nick Negroponte, who's brother John was running death squads out of the US embassy in Honduras. The right-wing fraudster apple sure doesnt fall far down the tree.
Hasn't the Negroponte inflicted enough suffering on Latin America?
Well that's just douchy Atlanpiss
I know you've forgotten that the open source philosophy is one of freedom of choice - or beer but how could you forget that you are at slashdot?
I officially call upon the mighty slashers to mod you down for ignorance.
I mean, we don't want to be cruel
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I'd say it's time that people boycott drugs from Colombia!