[IAEP] [support-gang] Fwd: w7sins FUD

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> Thanks to all who made the FSF change this.
>
> - Bert -

+1

Sameer

> On 02.09.2009, at 08:14, Bill Kerr wrote:
>
>> Yes the new paragraph is more reasonable:
>>
>> Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs, in an
>> attempt to get them to replace the free software with Windows. It
>> remains to be seen to what degree Microsoft will succeed. But with
>> all of this pressure, Microsoft has harmed a project that has
>> distributed more than 1 million laptops running free software, and
>> has taken aim at the low-cost platform as a way to make poor
>> children around the world dependent on its products. The OLPC
>> threatens to become another example of the way Microsoft convinces
>> governments around the world that an education involving computers
>> must be synonymous with an education using Windows. In order to
>> prevent this, it is vital that we work to raise global awareness of
>> the harm Microsoft's involvement does to our children's education.
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Bobby Powers
>>> <bobbypowers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> in any case, the text appears to be fixed now in a much more
>>> reasonable fashion.
>>>
>>> bobby
>>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Sebastian
>> Silva<sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
>> > 2009/8/31 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >> I don't think anyone on this list was suggesting that Windows on
>> OLPC
>> >> was/is a good/appropriate solution for learning. But there is a
>> free
>> >> software alternative, Sugar, that is designed to be appropriated by
>> >> the local community/culture. We were asking, why doesn't the FSF
>> >> promote alternatives (Sugar or some other free learning platform)
>> in
>> >> parallel with their anti-cultural-imperialism message?
>> >>
>> >> -walter
>> >>
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