Can wee simply mail chain it? or signed it digitally? or can we make a page signed by others who can't come by in your office? i would like to support the concept of it.
That is the great eye openting to the Filipinos. On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:26:18 +0800, David Adis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Wouldn't it be good also if this community could offer some kind of > familiarization training for the new OS we are trying to push? I would think > that a lot of the people that are supposedly the market for this people PCs > have or had in more ways than one made use of windows (or I might be wrong) > in their day to day routines or businesses or whatever things they did that > somehow was helped by computers. It also gives this letter a sort of > bargaining chip which could somehow put more weight on our cause rather than > just the cost benefit. Maybe some pro-bono work for all of us. :) > > Just a thought though, I'm not quite sure if this is even remotely possible. > But then again, nothing beats the heart of a volunteer. :p > > Hooyah!!! > /David > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 2:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [plug] An Open Letter to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo > (FirstDraft) > > Well, here it is people, as promised. Tell me what you think, and if it's > okay I'll have it printed and whoever is interested may come by my office to > sign before I have it sent. > > -- > dido > Te capiam, cuniculus sceleste! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo President of the Republic of the > Philippines > > Makati City, Philippines, September 30, 2004 > > Your Excellency, > > We, the undersigned, a group of concerned citizens who work in the field of > information and communication technology, have heard of your "People's PC" > program that will offer affordable personal computers to the Filipino > people. While this is a laudable program, and we wish this program to be as > successful as possible, the project does have some loose ends that we would > like to see addressed. > > >From what we know, the computers to be provided are bare, and do not > include any operating system or other software necessary for its proper > operation. As you are no doubt aware, a computer without such software > cannot really do anything, and thus, such software must be procured before > the computer can be good for doing anything even remotely useful. While > illicit channels are, sadly, still readily available for obtaining such > software today, obtaining legitimate copies of the traditional type of > software for this purpose is expensive, and would defeat the purpose of the > program. A complete set of such software could easily cost much more than > the projected price point for the computer hardware itself. > > However, there are also perfectly legitimate alternatives available at > minimal cost. The GNU/Linux operating system, a complete and fully featured > operating system that is collaboratively developed by groups of programmers > from all over the world under licenses that specifically permit its > redistribution and modification, is looking to be a viable, low-cost > alternative to the traditional operating systems in wide use today. The > Advanced Science and Technology Institute of the Department of Science and > Technology itself has developed its own variant of the GNU/Linux operating > system, known as Bayanihan Linux, and it has been used to good effect by the > University of the Philippines. > > The undersigned therefore humbly suggest that the program encourage the use > of the GNU/Linux operating system by offering the software to everyone who > obtains a computer through the program. This way, the beneficiaries of the > program receive a fully functional computer complete with all the software > they need to become productive with it, at no additional cost to them. This > will also encourage the use and development of Linux and other Free and Open > Source Software by Filipinos, which will serve to increase our nation's > competitiveness in the ICT arena. > > -- > 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? 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