Re: [GKD] RFI: Computer Donations To The Third World

2003-06-19 Thread Theophane Kinda
As a head of NTIC programme in Burkina Faso let me emphasize the fact that the gap between third world and developed courties is so high that we cannot make any comparison. I am also convinced that second hand computers may be of some help in third world. As you know more than 2/3 of the

[GKD] eWeek Supports W3C Software Patents Stand

2003-06-19 Thread Seth Johnson
The editorial in eWeek this week is fairly strongly anti-software-patent, quoting Gerald Cohen, veteran head of I-Builders in New York: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1122081,00.asp Opinion June 9, 2003 Patent Progress There's a reason for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. It was