[LUAU] France Surrenders to FOSS

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Mon Feb 5 23:26:59 PST 2007


because CDs are fragile.

because you can't write to CDs (well, not unless they're CD-RWs)

because CDs are *small*.

becaus DSLinux is ... icky.

On Feb 5, 2007, at 8:36 PM, 808blogger wrote:

> why not give away free cd's of DSLinux?
>
> thats significantly cheaper
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> On 2/5/07, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
>>
>> 175,000 USB keys, $20 each, full of FOSS.
>>
>> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/
>> French_kids_get_open_source_on_USB/0,130061733,339273416,00.htm
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>> widget:~ jim$ bc -lq
>> 3380000/175000
>> 19.31428571428571428571
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>> 2GB USB keys sell for $22 or so, quantity one.
>>
>>    There are about 1864,000 students in Hawaii's public schools
>> (based on the 2005-2006 NCLB testing report).
>>
>> in 100K quantities, we should be able to get 2GB USB keys for $10 or
>> under, pre-loaded.
>>
>> A full load of Ubuntu 6.10 already fits on a 2GB USB key with 1.2GB
>> free.   Plenty of room for files and other applications.
>>
>> Thats a cool two dollars to equip every student in a DOE student with
>> a full linux computer that works wherever they go
>> (and yes, its possible to make it boot on nearly any computer that
>> supports USB, albeit sometimes into Windows first.)
>>
>> Might be just the thing for Kuokoa.   Heck, we could sell em.    Or
>> contract to provide service (specialized apt repositories to deal
>> with the language, calendar, ... stuff) at $1 each / year.
>>
>> jim
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