Whats the point anyways? community radio would have helped more than this "install-linux-everywhere" approach. Development agencies and the now mushrooming NGOs in India and places like ours are anyways dominated by fund givers, the ever so fashionable middle class elite and their simplified concerns so much, that western assumptions about literacy and information uptake are arbitarily applied to the situation here. Awareness helps, Information helps, Literacy helps, reducing the cost of access to Information also helps, but computers and linux arent the complete answer. Its funny the way linux is being pimped these days.
On a random note, anyone in here done ax.25? What was the experience like? Do you still have the working setup? Shaji K V Abhishek Kumar wrote: > guys, > this is an excerpt that i found going through the LG aug 2002 issue > maybe this could also be used as one of the arguments for LAP project > " Pakistan is getting into the Open Source game too. 50,000 Pentium > IIs running GNU/Linux are being installed in schools and colleges > all over Pakistan, at a cost of less than US$100 each. > "Proprietary software for these PCs would cost a small fortune. > Surely more than what the computers cost!" " > > .along with this it states that many latin american countries are looking > for moving into linux and billgates have been giving the donations so > that > they do not move on to opensource since it may have cascading effect. > bye > abhishek > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe > in subject header. Check archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
