This piece is a little older, but I am highlighting it as I get to know Mozilla’s Atul Varma and as I am thinking about the educational potential for Drumbeat. On his blog, Toolness, Atul writes:
Every time I think about why I like the open web, I basically think of how well it fits with the way I learned to use and program computers as a kid: my first computer, an Atari 400, came with everything I needed to do programming, and I (or my parents) didn’t have to spend hundreds of dollars or sign an NDA to get a development tool.
Read the whole piece here.

