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Re: Zonbu



 There are always teachers, even if they are missionaries. The problem is the 
whole mind share thing, which drives me nuts. It's like, hey, windows is 
perfect in every way shape and form and so easy to use that why bother to 
look for something like... good. It's also a new thing, and people have 
gotten so use to dealing with windows that anything else seems horrible. I 
mean, seriously check out the comments some government tech officials are 
saying about OLPC, it's scary. 

On Dec 14, 2007 5:55 PM, John Abreau <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 
> 
> Ben Holland wrote: 
> > Unfortunately  you have people in other governments saying things like 
> > "It doesn't run windows? I don't like the bugs of this OS. Teachers 
> > all have to learn on windows laptops." So basically when Microsoft 
> > came out with their 3$ software bundle all countries will end up doing 
> > is staring at stuff like this, going, it's really cheep, stare at the 
> > bundle and go, hey it's really cheep! Get me a million of those... and 
> > totally missing the point of OLPC. It's unfortunate, OLPC is one hell 
> > of a laptop. ~Ben H. 
> 
> You'd think that if there are no teachers, then it wouldn't matter 
> what a teacher might prefer. 
> 
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