ivan krstić: The paradox of choice

January 13th, 2008 § 3 comments

Ivan, of OLPC fame, made a post a few days ago about some issues he took with a post by Bruce Perens belea­guer­ing some of the recent OLPC/Microsoft press. It’s inter­est­ing for a few rea­sons — other than the back and forth between Ivan and Bruce, there’s a gem of a quote that rang very true for me:

One commonly-forgotten truth about OLPC is that our com­mit­ment to open source and free soft­ware isn’t reli­gious, but prag­matic — we believe Linux and Sugar con­sti­tute a bet­ter soft­ware plat­form and, much more impor­tantly, a bet­ter learn­ing platform.

Not only do I agree with the first part of that quote, namely my phi­los­o­phy to using open and free soft­ware runs towards the prag­matic, and not reli­gious, but that the OLPC is a learn­ing platform.

This quote also reen­forces this idea.

Read his post here: ivan krstić · code cul­ture: The para­dox of choice

  • dam­jan

    „namely my phi­los­o­phy to using open and free soft­ware runs towards the prag­matic, and not religious“

    With this you are assum­ing that there a lot of peo­ple who are reli­gious about free soft­ware … but are there?

  • jnoller

    Yes, I actu­ally know more than a hand­ful of peo­ple who insist on “purely” free soft­ware — and I mean free as in free­dom — not beer. The Free Soft­ware move­ment is like any other move­ment and has its ideologues.

  • http://jessenoller.com jnoller

    Yes, I actu­ally know more than a hand­ful of peo­ple who insist on “purely” free soft­ware — and I mean free as in free­dom — not beer. The Free Soft­ware move­ment is like any other move­ment and has its ideologues.

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