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It makes sense...
After all, wouldn't it make soooo much more sense to plonk down a few hundred Euro per kid to get each of those 175,000 kids a full-up copies of Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc?

Makes sense on a different planet, maybe wink. I'm willing to bet that the apps those kids are getting are most likely from John T. Haller's(http://www.portableapps.com) site. I've used them when I had to print out some of my ODF documents at an internet cafe(this was before my home box had net access, and I don't have a printer yet :(). Without it I had to convert to .DOC before going to the cafe, print it out via Word at the cafe, then convert it back when I got home. Of course this would cause formatting loss, so I had to be careful not to get too fancy. With the portable suite, conversion wasn't necessary and I didn't have to use a different word processor.

At least those kids might keep the portable media player. Comes in handy when dealing with formats WMP chokes on grin
Posted by: Tony Agudo   Posted on: 02/05/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Encouraging expansion of knowledge good, very good  Boot_Agnostic | 02/05/07
What a GREAT idea....  shawkins | 02/05/07
Paris turns 175,000 kids on to open-source key plan  Loverock Davidson | 02/05/07
You know one you know them all  voska | 02/05/07
OMG! Ya mean everything I learned to do with Craftsman tools ...  OButterball | 02/05/07
Not true  Loverock Davidson | 02/05/07
I disagree  voska | 02/05/07
Once in a while, I agree with you LD  galileon | 02/06/07
That's what I see now too  voska | 02/06/07
You are correct again, LR  fuzzy2k | 02/06/07
What a dink...  jasonp@... | 02/06/07
Your usual load of garbage Lovey!!  shawkins | 02/05/07
Lovey Dovey... always in tune with the world  yyuko@... | 02/05/07
You know it!  Loverock Davidson | 02/05/07
I agree  mlindl | 02/05/07
Yes Times have changed  voska | 02/05/07
Yes your post is garbage  Loverock Davidson | 02/05/07
Which version?  zkiwi | 02/05/07
maybe it's time to change that, no?  benitodarder | 02/06/07
A USB Key and software license for $USD19 per child  Richard Flude | 02/05/07
Of course  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/05/07
what? when they could have a OS to go with it.  Arm A. Geddon | 02/05/07
Try again  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/05/07
re: gentoo  Arm A. Geddon | 02/05/07
It makes sense...  Tony Agudo | 02/05/07
Alternately  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/05/07
Ah, I forgot about that the OpenCD...  Tony Agudo | 02/05/07
Freedom? Yeah right!  Gkyluig | 02/06/07
They don't really know they have an alternative  Olivier Pilot | 02/06/07
Err in the real world  mrjonno | 02/06/07
In the real world, people are pretty adaptable, and don't have a problem  DonnieBoy | 02/06/07
Why?  voska | 02/06/07
maybe your real world  shryko | 02/06/07
Which is exactly why  fuzzy2k | 02/06/07
Knowledge sure is expensive  Gkyluig | 02/06/07
Those GD tax and spend politicians!  fuzzy2k | 02/06/07
A better world?  Gkyluig | 02/06/07
Freedom is partial  atlury_murali@... | 02/06/07
Freedom of choice  Gkyluig | 02/06/07
Free software is a movement NOT a business  atlury_murali@... | 02/13/07

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