[OLPC Brasil] Why call tools "activities"?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 3:18 , Albert Cahalan wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de writes:
>
>> Just as an illustration about how bad this mind-shaping
>> already is - when I showed a system to university-level
>> students in which you can have a "program" draw outside
>> its window they were flabbergasted. Each year again.
>
> If that thought that was impossible, they were idiots.
> If they thought that was ill-mannered and an example of
> poor security in the modern GUI, they were correct.

If they thought anything at all without having it pointed it out at  
them first, it would have been good. But it was not, the thought did  
not even occur to them.

- Bert -