On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:51:54PM +0800, Dong Calmada wrote: > PCs costing 16 to 70t? My organization has already bought > (individually) 10 computers at Gilmore, Aurora Ave at P13,000 each. > They're all still working at this point. >
The only problem is those machines are essentially gray market. I haven't personally bought a machine from them in a while, but the last time I did it, if you require an official receipt it ends up costing significantly more, in fact no less than most other places where you can buy beige box clones. It's not the sort of thing that the government would get into, I think. ;) 16k is about right for a bare bones mid-range beige box machine. 70k sounds like either a low-end SMP enterprise machine, or a beige box with legit copies of Windows and Office. > Yes, ASTI (sounds like astig) must take the cudgels in pushing > open-source policy in this government's People's PC program. Of > course, civil society groups in the embrace of open-source/free > software must do their share in the advocacy, too. Indeed. The Government's already got a great deal of fiscal trouble on its hands, and the last thing it needs is a bigger sink where money goes into the pockets of foreign corporations. ASTI is certainly in the best position to influence the rest of the national government in this regard, but we should certainly raise our own objections as concerned citizens. If no one else is going to do so, I'll draft a letter to the President later, and post it here. After some corrections I'll turn it into a dead-tree version and send it to Malacanang after I've gotten enough people to sign. -- dido Te capiam, cuniculus sceleste! -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
