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

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

Jason wrote:

> We're not responsible for the education of these kids, but we can teach them
> a very important lesson: They can support each other and end up better off 
> than with whatever crappy support they can't afford to purchase. And we can 
> help support PLUG Jr. The biggest help is just showing them an example of how 
> the Linux community is about sharing ideas and helping others, in direct 
> contrast with greed-driven, price-fixed, anti-competitive, software licensing 
> schemes. Just dumping computers in their laps would be a huge wasted 
> opportunity to really provide some needed help.
>  

Jason makes an incredible point here.  We can teach them that they can 
support each other.  The people in this community have experience with 
self-support and government support, but outside of some strong families 
that still exist there, they have little experience in supporting each 
other.  Imagine a child in this community learning that he or she can 
*teach* their classmates!  Whoever came up with this plug Jr. thing is 
onto something.

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