[dundee] OLPC Videos...niiiiiiiiiice!

[Gary Short]

Lee Hughes wrote:
  > that last video is very interesting, and might dispel this trolling I
> see going
> about OLPC

Lee, can I take it that remark is aimed at me? If so that is a pity. 
Trolling is where you make a post on a forum, or similiar, with which 
you do not neccessarily agree, but you know the post will cause 
controversy amongst the readers of said forum. I did no such thing. I 
posted a comment on this forum saying that I thought the OLPC scheme was 
not the best use of the money if the aim was to educate the poor of the 
developing world.

This is an assertion which I believe and not something I posted to stir 
you all up. My point is not whether or not the technology itself is good 
or bad or whether or not it should run closed source or open source 
software, I have no opinion either way, I just believe its the wrong 
tool for the job and the money could be spent in better ways to further 
the education of children in developing countries.

You obviously hold a differing opinion and that is fine, we can debate 
the points of our argument, but that does not make me a troll for 
holding my views no more than it makes you a troll for holding yours. 
Unless you define a troll as anyone who does not agree with you of 
course, in which case further debate would be pointless I fear.

> Intel/Microsoft, you've already lost, go home... kids don't want office 
> 2007,
> internet exploder, loads of viri, and constant reinstalls and updates.

Again you try to bring the debate around to Microsoft versus Linux and 
closed source versus open source. That was not the topic of my original 
post and, as I say, it is irrelevant to the point I made at the start of 
the thread. This is not a Microsoft / versus Linux debate, its a laptops 
versus teachers debate. I contend that the best way to educate people is 
to employ teachers and that is where the money should have been spent, IMHO.

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Cheers,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org