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● 09.12.09

●● Nicholas Negroponte Blames “Giants Who View Children As a Market”

Posted in Microsoft, OLPC at 3:15 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

“They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”

–Bill Gates

Summary: Project founder Nicholas Negroponte explains what is really harming the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative

THE former engineers of the OLPC project deny that GNU/Linux and Sugar were ever at fault. Instead, the real story has already been told in many posts and Nicholas Negroponte tells it like it is, also refuting a previous allegation that Sugar was to blame. He writes in response to a scathing piece:

=> deny that GNU/Linux and Sugar were ever at fault | ↺ many posts | ↺ writes in response to a scathing piece

I do not normally answer press and blogs, because we would spend all our time with words, not actions in the field But you are on a UN site and the UN is our partner. Check out Kofi Annan’s words — they have been fulfilled. Has it been harder than I expected? Yes. But do you know why? It is not due to what I had anticipated, things like corruption and logistics. It has been due to commercial interests and press, stories like yours.As a small non-profit, humanitarian organization, it is hard to battle giants who view children as a market, not a mission, and have other agendas.

This is why the likes of Microsoft and proprietary software in general (even Adobe) need to be kept out of education [1, 2, 3]. They poison education by leveraging the system to make themselves young clients. Watch how Microsoft approached the OLPC project (confidential memo from Comes vs Microsoft litigation).

=> even Adobe | 1 | 2 | 3 | how Microsoft approached the OLPC project | ↺ Comes vs Microsoft litigation

In other news about OLPC, some more units are being distributed right now.

=> ↺ some more units are being distributed right now

Under this program, 1,250 laptop computers will be distributed to students in 13 schools.

Here is another new report from OLPC News. █

=> ↺ another new report from OLPC News

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