Re: [Sheflug] Raspberry Pi

[Perry Ismangil <perry@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 21:24, Arif Ali <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why would it fail. Think about it. The first batch of 10k of these sold out
> within an hour.

Sorry, I should have qualified it: fail as a mass market educational
device beyond the hobbyists community.

There is no lack of computing devices both in kids home and their
school, any computer capable of running MS Office, which what they
teach my kids since Y1 these days, will be capable of programming.

So I don't quite see that 'cheap £30 computer' will change anything.

I'm not usually sceptical, and I'm a free software advocate (my
business is dual licensing our free software project), it's just the
'mass education' part that's not conducive to ANY kind of
free-thinking, not just in computing sciences.

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