The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
> <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:18:38 +0100
> <fo7vfg$e9u$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> One Laptop Per Child wins Wallpaper* Design Award
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Wallpaper* has given One Laptop Per Child?s XO laptop
>>> | a Judges Award for Most Life Enhancing Item. Click
>>> | through for the February 2008 shoot, which leans
>>> | more towards the ?Ubuntu Calendar? school of styling
>>> | than the usual pics of
>>> | smiling schoolchildren.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.11.26.101258.24.html
>>>
>>> Linux just works for me !
>>
>> Life enhancing? Has the world gone mad? How is that in anyway life
>> enhancing?
>
> How is Windows life enhancing?
>
Who said it was?
> Personally, I think African schoolchildren have far more
> issues to deal with than the availability of a cheap but
> usable laptop.
Duh!
> In particular, there's a fair amount of
> corruption in many African countries, plus the lack of
> infrastructure (water, roadways, electricity, etc.) and
> schooling issues.
>
> This is not to say a laptop won't help, but it's certainly
> not a be-all and end-all; it's one piece of a large,
> complex puzzle.
And a commodity to rob and resell.
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