Hi, I may be interested but I'm based in Cebu, and I'm sure so are some other PLUG members... How may I/we support this request/letter?
:) --- Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? To join the newbie list, go > to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- 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
