French Kids get Open Source Software on USB drives

[mehulved]

Originally Posted by daria42

"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 http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl.../02/06/0126231

[Pathik]

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

[Tech Geek]

What??
I wish i would be living there

[Aberforth]

Originally Posted by pathiks

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

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

[Tech Geek]

Originally Posted by Aberforth

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

No one can take
It is impossible

[phreak0ut]

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

[gary4gar]

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

[Pathik]

wich scam gary????

[mehulved]

Also people start misusing like UBUNTU CD's for sale..... and http://digg.com/linux_unix/OFFER_Ubu...s_1500_per_CD/

[phreak0ut]

Originally Posted by tech_your_future

Also people start misusing like UBUNTU CD's for sale..... and http://digg.com/linux_unix/OFFER_Ubu...s_1500_per_CD/

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