The One Laptop Per Child Project and Microsoft are working together to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries, the head of OLPC said in an interview Tuesday. "We are working with them very closely to make a dual-boot system so that, like on an Apple, you can boot either one up. The version that's up and running of Windows on the XO is very fast, it's very, very successful. We're working very hard to do both," said Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC.
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Who said that doing something that a lot of others are doing is automatically a good thing? How about considering the reasons they are doing it for (ie. they are sheeple). Or what exactly are they learning from using Windows (ie. to monkey around, point and click, change their wallpaper and they're dead in the water).
So please don't use "learn" and "Windows" in the same sentence again. Most people use it because it comes with their computer or because they don't know better, and they click around like ninnies. They don't develop any useful skills whatsoever. They develop reflexes, at best.
If they learned anything, they'd be able to comprehend at least on some level how computers work, and then it wouldn't make any difference if they sit in front of a Windows or Mac or Linux desktop, since nowadays they use common, convergent concepts.
If somebody ever comes to me and boasts that they "know how to use Windows", so help me God if I won't send for some hay and make them munch on it. Jesus, like it's anything of significance in today's day and age. Do you feel proud about knowing how public transportation works? Woo hoo, call Mensa, we may have the next Einstein here.
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2006-05-18
They could learn a useful skill - using the OS that over 95% of the world uses - and not just a crippled GUI from fantasy land.