Google Gives 15,000 Raspberry Pis To UK Schools

Grench writes "Search giant Google is providing funding to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to give 15,000 new Raspberry Pi Model B computers to schools all around the United Kingdom. Google Giving's partnership with the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a significant investment in UK IT education; it is hoped this will help turn around the decline in UK schoolkids going on to study IT in colleges or universities. The Foundation said, 'CoderDojo, Code Club, Computing at Schools, Generating Genius, Teach First and OCR will each be helping us identify those kids, and will also be helping us work with them. ... Grants like this show us that companies like Google aren’t prepared to wait for government or someone else to fix the problems we’re all discussing, but want to help tackle them themselves.' 15,000 Model B units at $35 each would run $525,000."

Comments

Re:Why?

[DeathElk]

Why the fuck would anybody be "studying" about Exchange or Active Directory? This is intended to lay the groundwork for interest in REAL computing.

RTFA that's whole point, not more cubicle drones

[raymorris]

running whatever it is you're studying about (Exchange, Active Directory, etc).

RTFA. The point of the thing is that the young generation knows how to RUN software, but who is going to design quantum CPUs in 2030, or invent the next revolution like the Internet? You don't learn to build new technologies by practicing being an MS cubicle drone running Exchange.

Hell, with the prodicts you mentioned you're not even ALLOWED to try to figure out how they work. That's called reverse engineering and it's against the license. The whole point of the Pi is to first learn how things work, then use that knowledge to build entirely new and better things.

Re:RTFA that's whole point, not more cubicle drone

[julesh]

Hell, with the prodicts you mentioned you're not even ALLOWED to try to figure out how they work. That's called reverse engineering and it's against the license.

Here in the UK, the right to reverse engineer is legally mandated by statute, so they can't take it away with license terms.

It is not an infringement of copyright for a lawful user of a copy of a computer program to observe, study or test the functioning of the program in order to determine the ideas and principles which underlie any element of the program if he does so while performing any of the acts of loading, displaying, running, transmitting or storing the program which he is entitled to do.

and

Article 6
Decompilation
1. The authorisation of the rightholder shall not be required
where reproduction of the code and translation of its form
within the meaning of points (a) and (b) of Article 4(1) are
indispensable to obtain the information necessary to achieve
the interoperability of an independently created computer
program with other programs, provided that the following
conditions are met:
(a) those acts are performed by the licensee or by another
person having a right to use a copy of a program, or on
their behalf by a person authorised to do so;
(b) the information necessary to achieve interoperability has not
previously been readily available to the persons referred to
in point (a); and
(c) those acts are confined to the parts of the original program
which are necessary in order to achieve interoperability.

are both parts of our statutes.

Re:$4,100,000,000 taxes paid last year, 50% of pro

[rich_hudds]

In England we have free healthcare for everyone.

It's very popular.

The media in the US says that we have death panels.

We don't have death panels. They were lying to you.