Star 'OLPC Could Be the IBM Global Services of Laptop Programs'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th May 2008 09:02 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems Back in November of 2006, I wrote a piece about the One Laptop Per Child Project. I was afraid that the project's focus on creating a whole new paradigm (the Sugar UI) would ultimately intervene with the actual goal of the project: teaching stuff to kids. Ivan Krstic, former director of security architecture at OLPC, wrote an essay in which he heavily criticises the OLPC project.
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Thom_Holwerda
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2005-06-29

In this case I think it is important to forget our own agendas, and think about the primary goal: education.


Bingo.

The goal of educating children is far more important than the goal of spreading Free software or fighting t3h ev1l Microsoft. Those children will define the future of the world - our software will not.

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