French Kids get Open Source Software on USB drives

10 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/french-kids-get-open-source-software-on-usb-drives.48673/

daria42 said:
"To help make kids aware of alternatives to proprietary software the Ile-de-France, the political district of greater Paris, will give 175,000 school children and apprentices USB keys loaded with open-source software. With a word-processing program, audio and video playback capabilities, an email client and an IM client, these are essentially computers on a stick. The council touts this as 'represent[ing] for students a tool of freedom and mobility between their school, cybercafes and their home or friends' PCs'."

Read more here *linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/0126231

India me aisa kyu nahi hota ?????????????????????????????????

What??

I wish i would be living there

pathiks said:
India me aisa kyu nahi hota ?????????????????????????????????

Someone has to take the initiative and it can happen in India too. The question is, "Who?"

Aberforth said:
Someone has to take the initiative and it can happen in India too. The question is, "Who?"

No one can take
It is impossible

Though they take up an initiative like this, more often the 'officials' would flick it for themselves; they can use it or not. Also, the kids might delete the stuff on it and might even sell it

did anyone forget the condom scam???
it happens only india

wich scam gary????

Also people start misusing like *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48229 and *digg.com/linux_unix/OFFER_Ubuntu_only_Rs_1500_per_CD/

tech_your_future said:
Also people start misusing like *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48229 and *digg.com/linux_unix/OFFER_Ubuntu_only_Rs_1500_per_CD/

I can't believe that guy actually managed to sell few CDs. I can't believe the suckers as well