http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22953.html
Nice reg article on M$ and Redhat's offers to donate free software and computers to schools in poor areas. The reg's opinion is pretty much that poor kids probably need clothes, good educations, and food a lot more than either M$ or Redhat software. snip-- Poor children in rich countries what do they need? Here's our incomplete list. Somewhere safe to live; three meals a day; parents who love them, who don't beat them up, and who maybe even read to them occasionally; somewhere to play outside; a good school which doesn't treat them as failures because they are poor; books; swimming lessons; friends. And when they are a little older? A credit card. This is how one gains membership of the Digital elite, not through owning a poxy computer decked out with poxy software. --snip -Lkb _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
