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<div>Posed this way, the only answer possible is : enabling learning using XO and its versions in general. Broadly speaking, in the context of OLPC and, in particular, its application in India. </div>
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<div>More general questions that in the opinion of the participants aid that process should be welcome as well. You are a co-founder of OLPC and I would think what you may consider appropriate is clearly right. </div>
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<div>Thanks and regards<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Q: Is this list more generally about enabling learning or is more<br>narrowly about enabling learning through the OLPC XO-1 hardware?<br>
<br>regards.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-walter<br></font>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Satish Jha OLPC <<a href="mailto:satish@laptop.org">satish@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Richard Stallman has been trying to get his idea of "Free" accepted as he<br>
> would like for quite some time. He is a leader in his own right and has<br>> energised a whole movement of "Free" software.<br>><br>> However, XO is for children. Its for those who need to learn and are not<br>
> already the leaders of a movement, though I hope they will all have access<br>> to the world that will make a potential leader out of everyone.<br>><br>> My request is that these debates, important as they are, may not belong<br>
> here.<br>><br>> This forum may be far more useful as a way to get the XO reach all those who<br>> need it rather than have ideological debates, which must go on at the right<br>> places.<br>><br>> Thanks mch.<br>
><br>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Saswat Praharaj <<a href="mailto:saswat_praharaj@yahoo.com">saswat_praharaj@yahoo.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.6/stallman.php" target="_blank">http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.6/stallman.php</a><br>
>><br>>> Snip >>>.<br>>><br>>> The One Laptop Per Child project, launched by MIT professor Nicholas<br>>> Negroponte in 2003, was supposed to lead millions of children around the<br>
>> world to information technology and freedom. The plans aimed for low cost,<br>>> enabling many children to use the machines, and free software, so they would<br>>> have freedom while using them. I thought it was a good idea; I even planned<br>
>> to use one myself when I found in the OLPC's promise of free software a way<br>>> to escape the proprietary startup programs that all commercial laptops used.<br>>><br>>> But just as I was switching to an OLPC, the project backed away from its<br>
>> commitment to freedom and allowed the machine to become a platform for<br>>> running Windows, a non-free operating system.<br>>><br>>> What makes this issue so important, and OLPC's retreat from free software<br>
>> so unfortunate, is that the "free" in free software refers to freedom of<br>>> knowledge and action, not to price. A program (whatever job it does) is free<br>>> software if you, the user, have the four essential freedoms:<br>
>><br>>> >>>>>>...<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> ________________________________<br>>> Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>
>> India mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:India@lists.laptop.org">India@lists.laptop.org</a><br>>> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india</a><br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">--<br>Walter Bender<br>Sugar Labs<br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>