Re: [PLUG] Community Service Project (Devil's advocate)

[MITCHELL MALTENPORT <mmalten@comcast.net>]

Huh?

As I recall the original posting by Jon Nelson, the idea was to provide 
computers for districts which couldn't afford 'em.  So 'what the school 
already has' doesn't make sense.  

I'm not sure if 'what their friends already have' makes sense either, 
but then I'd naively extrapolated poor school district == poor 
neighborhood.  

In any event, these computers are donated to classrooms.  Games?  Char 
software?  Why would either be installed?


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>
Date: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:31 am
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Community Service Project (Devil's advocate)

> Kyle R. Burton said:
> .
> >
> > If it doesn't cost the installers any more to do 98 vs Linux, 
> why not
> > poll  the kids and their families and let them choose?  List 
> what each
> > one comes with, the beneifts that we feel relate to each 
> offering and
> > allow them to choose their own destiny (perhaps with an offer to
> > re-install their system if they change their minds later?).
> 
> Windows will be the most common answer. :-) That's what they've 
> heard of;
> that's what they've used at their friends' house; that's what the 
> parentsmost likely use at work (if at all); that's what the PCs at 
> school(likely) run; it's what they use at the library, probably.
> 
> Most of the kids will say they want games, and cool chat software. 
> Somemay want programming stuff, if they're incipient geeks. The 
> parents will
> want more than that for the kids.
> 
> That's been my experience with the younger (< 12 or so) crowd, anyway.
> 
> > Linux:
> >   Pre-installed with:
> >     - web browser (value $0)
> >     - full office suite(s) (value $300?)
> >     - programming languages (value $500?)
> 
> Well, there is a free version of C for Windows, I believe. Ditto 
> for perl,
> python, etc.
> 
> >     - web page editor(s) (value $79.95?)
> 
> Front Page Express on Windows is a web editor, and is free. And 
> web pages
> can be edited using open Office these days, I believe.
> 
> >     - image/graphics software (Gimp) (value $200?)
> 
> Gimp is available for Windows, and is free.
> 
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