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Re: [News] One Linux Laptop for Each Child in Thailand?

__/ [ [H]omer ] on Monday 14 August 2006 11:35 \__

> Mark Kent wrote:
>> begin  oe_protect.scr
>> news.cogeco.ca <BushIsATraitor@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> <snip>
>>> Linux morons, living in the land of self delusion.
>>>
>> I'm always left somewhat bemused as to why the Microsoft astroturfers
>> here are so dead against 3rd world children being educated.  Will they
>> not be able to exploit them any more?  What's their problem?
> 
> Maybe they're afraid that once people are educated, and therefore become
> able to think for themselves, then those people will realise the
> futility of *buying* commercial crapware, rather then using vastly
> superior FOSS for free.

I once knew a guy who never used/s Windows. He was of a foreign origin and he
went to university with me. At the time, his computer knowledge seemed
totally outlandish. That's how you come to judge a 18-year-old who, at the
year of Y2K bugs, does not even use Windows. Click to focus was very
unnatural to him, for instance. But guess what? In the IT domain, he beat us
all as though we were a bunch of click-and-drool folks. The guy /understood/
computing.

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