Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Open source for students: 150,000 laptops may help bridge the digital divide
in Brazil
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| This is an important step, nonetheless. When effectively deployed,
| these first 150,000 computers will help evaluate how to extend
| similar programs to all brazilian students -- no small feat,
| considering that there are more than 50 million students
| enrolled in brazilian public schools today.
The brazilian open source community watches every move of this game with increasing attention as it approaches an important decision. All 3 alternatives support Linux, but proprietary OS makers aren’t known for forfeiting this kind of match: the Classmate PC officially supports Windows too, and the OLPC sometimes isn’t very assertive about Windows running on their bright-colored computers.
Yes, and will the decision be based on "education" or on what strategic
deal is cut with Brazil vis a vis energy, relations with Venezuela and
so on...
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