Is this part of the one child one laptop movement? On 6/13/07, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes they did, and if you could speak spanish you would see they are > doing the same thing currently on YouTube :) > > As for the computers, they aren't setting them up so to speak. They > are selling them. People, thus far, can do what they want with them > after that. Wipe the OS etc. if they wish. But most of the newbies > will stick with whatever flavour of Linux is installed on the > machines, I'm sure. Especially if the people use that in the office, > or in major industries, they'll probably continue to use it at home. > > I hear Jim's point that Windows could become a status symbol, but as > with all Status symbols only a few people will have it. > > It is interesting from a computing perspective because you now have a > Linux based market that you can sell a different type of product > to.It's a huge oppurtunity for Firefox for example.In a few years you > may have to cater for non-ie users as your majority of users if you do > business in Latin America. That may not be your market G Money, but > that's not true for all businesses in America. Certainly isn't true > for businesses in the Caribbean. > > With regards the Broadcast group: > "1) RCTV is one of the biggest radio and television companies in > Venezuela. It airs news and entertainment programs and has been openly > opposed to Chavez from day one. It has almost continuously called for > the violent overthrow of the Chavez government. > > 2) It openly supported the coup in 2002 when Chavez was briefly ousted > and supported the 2002/2003 general strike by repeatedly asking its > viewers to come out onto the streets to protest and help topple the > government as part of its continuing campaign against the government. > > It has also accused the government of serious crimes (e.g. murder) > without providing any kind of evidence and has shown gruesome images > of violence that it said that the government had perpetrated where > there was no evidence of government involvement. > > 3) In 1987 (long before Hugo Chavez) a law was passed in which the > executive could (without there being any recourse to the courts) > refuse to renew a broadcast licence. The broadcast licences for RCTV > and other stations granted under the 1987 law expired on May 27th > 2007. > > 4) In other democratic countries broadcast companies occasionally do > not get their broadcast licences renewed. For example, in 1982 Thames > Television lost their broadcast licence after some 24 years of > service. There were accusations at that time that the government of > Margaret Thatcher had a lot to do with the loss of that licence. > > Now it is fair to ask if broadcast licences would be lost in European > countries or even in the United States if a broadcast company behaved > in the way that RCTV had. > > This is admittedly a very difficult question to answer, but it is > quite likely that any broadcast company which called for the violent > overthrow of, say, President Bush, would probably have its licence > pulled. > > In 2004 it was reported that a broadcasting group called the Sinclair > Broadcasting Group which controls most of the local television > stations in the United States was going to replace the normal planned > programming with a documentary that was critical of John Kerry two > weeks before the Presidential elections. The Democrats were outraged > and threatened that if this "un-American" activity took place that by > 2008 there would be no Sinclair Broadcasting Group." > > So both the UK and the US have their similar cases, no different to > what occurred in Venezuela. I am trying to find a non spanish news > link for you, but it is surprisingly (sarcasm) very hard to find any > major news sites reporting the other side of this story. > > On 6/13/07, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They did? > > > > > > Yes it would be, and yes, if they were doing this (I'm suspicious), it was > > not reported...here or anywhere, as far as I can tell. > > > > Or tracking their activities? Bottom line, no WAY I would trust a > > government, my own or any other, to install and set up MY computer "in good > > faith". Please...i don't even trust M$ to do that! > > > > I have no emotional stake in increasing the # of Linux users. > > > > > > It's interesting only as a social case study. To save a few hundred bucks, > > do you allow the government to standardize an entire country's computer > > system with their own brand of who-knows-what? > >
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