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[News] Third World Countries Wipe Hard Drives to Install Linux

  • Subject: [News] Third World Countries Wipe Hard Drives to Install Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:46:09 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Fair trade

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| Computerbank's Kylie Davies was impressed with the prototype she saw at a 
| recent Linux conference, which she says is an exciting tech step forward for 
| the 99 per cent of children in developing countries who leave school without 
| ever having touched a computer.   
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/fair-trade/2007/10/16/1192300772339.html


Related:

FOSSFA calls for use of open hardware

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| "No government should allow its freedom of choice to be restricted by the 
| chance of prior hardware purchases. The fact of the matter is that government 
| is a major purchaser of hardware and it can use that power to enforce 
| openness among manufacturers and their products," he said   
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1725

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