LiveContent 2.0 beta LiveDVD available for testing
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| LiveContent 2.0 is a free, Linux-based LiveDVD full of open source software
| and Creative Commons’ licensed open content — audio, video, image, text and
| educational resources. LiveContent is a project for anyone to explore to
| learn more about about open content that can be freely used, copied, and
| built upon.
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http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/livecontent-20-beta-livedvd-available-for-testing.html
OLPC book & music drive and XO hackathon
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| We are collecting all the free books, movies, music, and other content that
| we can in the next five days! Then, on Tuesday (2/19) the Creative Commons
| will be burning a LiveDVD as part of LiveContent 2.0 with big selection of CC
| licensed materials that we are gathering—this DVD will be distributed to
| events like South by Southwest and elsewhere. The bundle of books and
| educational resources we collect will be used by One Laptop per Child to send
| all over the world for children, families, and schools! And will compiling
| and reviewing the best college-level resources they can find for the coming
| re-launch of their new, community driven site!
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2008/02/14/olpc-bookdrive-and-hackathon/
Related:
One Laptop Per Child wins Wallpaper* Design Award
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| 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.
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http://blog.gobanquet.com/index.php/one-laptop-per-child-wins-wallpaper-award/
Why Microsoft Must Control One Laptop Per Child
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| It's a threat Microsoft can't let stand: the entire third world learning
| Linux as children, and growing up to use it. And Microsoft is going to get
| its way.
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| It comes after a sudden wave of SCO-like problems for the OLPC project. A
| specious patent lawsuit over keyboards. Board-member Intel thrown out of the
| project for attempting to convince national governments to drop OLPC
| purchases and go with its own (Windows) product. First, OLPC is shown what
| its problems will be if it doesn't cooperate with Microsoft. Then, Microsoft
| approaches with money and technical help - you just have to run Windows to
| get it.
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| [...]
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| Unfortunately, I don't believe that Microsoft's intent toward the OLPC
| project is at all benign. They will promote their OLPC software load for
| DRM-locked content with the help of proprietary publishers who are threatened
| enough by open content to throw some zero cost but DRM locked e-books to the
| third world. If they can get governments to commit to the DRM-locked content
| on your platform, a non-Microsoft OS is going to be out of the race.
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| Also, nobody who wants an open platform for the third world is
| being "religious" about it, promoting sound public policy is not religion.
| I'm really tired of hearing that old saw brought up, please stop it.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/1/10/33518
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