OLPC!

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Those who have supported the OLPC project with their effort or their money may well feel betrayed. However, those concerns are dwarfed by what is at stake here: whether the XO is an influence for freedom or an influence for subjection.

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Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Its functioning is secret, so it is incompatible with the spirit of learning. Teaching children to use a proprietary (non-free) system such as Windows does not make the world a better place, because it puts them under the power of the system’s developer — perhaps permanently. You might as well introduce the children to an addictive drug. (…)
– RMS, ¿Podemos rescatar a OLPC de Windows?.

Un par de parrafos que realmente me conmovieron del blog de Richard Stallman (En mi humilde opinión, un gran filósofo contemporáneo).

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