Terrible news for Linux (OLPC)

Message ID: 393562

Posted By: deepdistrust

Subject: Terrible news for Linux (OLPC)

We received the shocking news here at deepdistrust Inc that 4 countries have now placed orders for 1 million each of One Laptop Per Child machines. This is terrible news for Linux.

You want people fully grown up and mature before you suddenly spring Linux on them. The self-defeating tendencies have to be fully set before Linux becomes palatable. This early experience with Linux is going to scar 4 million children for life. It is not hard to foresee that, once grown up, they will stay as far as away from Linux as humanly possible. On the positive side, using Linux cannot but heighten their appreciation of Windows or OS/X once they lay their hands on either.

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