Aporw

[Christos Ricudis]

Lysimachos Zografos wrote:
> Pera apo tin kritiki gia tin poiotita twn windows ws leitoyrgiko 
> (profanes akoma kai apo to gegonos oti den ftanei i mnimi toy OLPC gia 
> ta XP), den kserw ti na ypothesw.

As mh ginomaste anonymous cowards. Ta Windows CE p.x. den exoun kai toso 
megales apaithseis mnhmhs,

> Einai apo pisw to filanthropiko alter ego toy Bill? Pantws apo ton 
> Balmer tha perimena widgetaki me adds sto desktop. Fantasteite twra to 
> (mesoasto - giati aytoi telika tha exoyn tin prosbasi) afrikanaki na 
> tsimpaei adds gia AOL, free emoticons kai singles in his city... 
> Epanastasi tha ginei. Pantws pera apo to asteio nomizw oti to project 
> ayto prepei na parameinei 100% OS/Linux based kai idelogika alla kai 
> giati an balei to xeraki tis i MS, tha prepei na bgei kai OLPC 
> antivirus/firewall/adware remover (apo tin Norton arage?).

To gamhses kai psofhse. Profanws kai endiaferei th Microsoft na 
zmprwksei to leitourgiko ths sto OLPC. Aporw giati to skefthkan toso 
arga malista.

Kai sto katw katw, wraio to OLPC. Omws :

1) To afrikanaki xreiazetai ena $100 laptop, h $100 fai?

2) Einai lymena tosa problhmata ths ekpaideyshs s'aytes tis xwres, poy 
to mono pou tous leipei einai mesh-networked laptops?

3) Sthn telikh, apo tous megalous oramatistes tou OLPC project, exei 
paei pote kaneis tous se kammia *pragmatika* ftwxh xwra na dei ti 
symbainei ekei pera, h aplws kanoyn thn epanastash tous apo thn edroula 
tous sto Cambridge, Massachusets?

4) An dextoume oti to "computer literacy" einai shmantiko ws pros to oti 
sou dinei th dynatothta na doulepseis kapou pou xreiazontai basikes 
gnwseis xeirismou ypologistwn (giati den perimenw p.x. na balei h 
Dhmokratikh Dhmokratia tou Kogko [1] ki allh mia dhmokratia sto onoma 
ths epeidh ksafnika o kosmos apekthse prosbash sto Swahili content tou 
wikipedia.org), tote einai kalytero na deixnoume se kapoion asxeto me 
ypologistes, kati pou endexomenws na synanthsei kai argotera (dhladh 
Windows), h kati pou den prokeitai mallon na ksanadei pote?

[1] Democratic Republic of Congo. Epanalambanoun dyo fores ton oro 
"dhmokratia" mhpws kataferoun kai peisoun kanenan.

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