<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/31 Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span><div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I don't think anyone on this list was suggesting that Windows on OLPC<br> was/is a good/appropriate solution for learning. But there is a free<br> software alternative, Sugar, that is designed to be appropriated by<br> the local community/culture. We were asking, why doesn't the FSF<br> promote alternatives (Sugar or some other free learning platform) in<br> parallel with their anti-cultural-imperialism message?<br> <br> -walter<br> <div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div></div><br>Walter,<br>I thank you for taking my comment and bringing it back into the<br>constructive sphere. Indeed your question is a very good one.<br><br>WRT business oriented platforms, I think the idea is that those<br> promote themselves (due to market dynamics)... except in niches<br>like education, health, environment, where, well, they don't.<br><br>So your point is very valid that the FSF could and perhaps <br>should promote alternatives for education (such as Sugar).<br> <br>Then again, perhaps that is part of our place as SugarLabs <br>( or perhaps at least our Local Labs efforts which are closer<br>to deployments ).<br><br>I don't think pointing at the problem is so bad, because the first<br> step to meaningful change is recognizing there is a problem.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Sebas<br></div><br>-- <br>Sebastian Silva<br>Laboratorios FuenteLibre<br><a href="http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/">http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/</a><br>