[Sur] [OLPC-Peru] Windows en OLPC XO Peru

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Daniel Ajoy <da.ajoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:06:09 -0500, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> My point is:
>>>
>>> * If teachers consider having YouTube and applets educationally valuable (In this discussion list teachers don't ask much but one of the few things that they have asked for is YouTube. I personally don't think that YouTube is very educationally valuable. )
>>>
>>> * And if the Windows laptops come ready for YouTube and applets (versus current Sugar laptops that don't come ready for YouTube and applets)
>>>
>>> then that is a plus for the Windows laptops.
>>
>> The fact that the current Sugar laptops "don't come ready for YouTube
>> and applets" is a local choice, not one inherent in the system,
>
>
> if it happens that the windows laptops do run YouTube videos and applets, the end result will be:
>
> * windows laptops have one of the few features teachers have cared about.
> * Sugar laptops don't.
>
> whose choice was it is irrelevant.
>
>
>> so to
>> argue that one should switch to Windows laptops for something readily
>> available on *any* laptop seems a bit of a stretch.
>
> There is nothing more readily available than "preinstalled". The next best thing is "easily installed".
>
> I bet that even now, that the technicians from Uruguay know that teachers want access to YouTube, the laptops won't come with the feature. Am I wrong?
>
>
> Daniel
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I don't know if the teachers in Uruguay think that YouTube is
critical, but if they do, then the necessary drivers could be
installed by default, "easily". But there are many such choices to be
made regardless of the choice of operating system. In Uruguay, this
process has been handled by Project Ceibal. Again, I don't understand
your point. Windows has made some choices by default: have you seen
the "unlimited potential" package? A far cry from what is currently
being used in Uruguay. This is about a lot more than YouTube.

-walter