On Monday 28 February 2005 20:07, Craig Adams wrote: > Hi Christian, All, > > THe HP iCommunity in Limpopo has by all accounts been a roaring > success in terms of how appropriate use of Free and Open Source > Software can benefit a community and the local economy.
Hi Craig, Would you like to talk about this topic on the Digital Tipping Point forum? We have a forum dedicated to tipping points, but so far it has been a little bit sluggish. In fact, very sluggish. Just me and one or two other people posting occasionally. I basically have been using the DTP forums as a place to invite people to express their opinions on tipping, etc., the movie, our website, etc. My goal is to make that website (and the movie!) a discussion, not a lecture. On the other hand, if you don't want to post a note about the success of the HP program and other FOSS stuff in ZA, maybe it would be okay with you if I posted this email there? IMHO, the developing world will tip first, and the developing world is going to be key to preserving freedom in cyberspace! Without the developing world, MS, Disney, and Comcast have a serious chance of seriously restricting all three layers of the Internet (Code; Content; and the Physical Layer). So basically, it us up to Asia, Africa, Latin America and Antarctica to save our butts!!!! Of course, we in North America and Europe can also put up a fight, and we are putting up a fight, but closed advocates are making up some serious ground with the Fritz chip, Palladium, DMCA, USCITA, DRM, etc. Ultimately, I think that they will lose, simply because of the market dynamics of modularity being "good enough", but it could be a scary few years first. I think that you folks will be amazed when the film comes out how advanced FLOSS is in Extremadura Spain. Microsoft is very very weak there. With major government officials expressing concern about lockdown there, and with a very strong FLOSS industry there, they are really really quite advanced on FLOSS on the desktop. Thanks either way. > > The number of success stories coming out of the community, both > in respect of individual and small business progress, have been > numerous. A lot of these stories are "human interest" with > individuals and teams being empowered by the use of the newly > available technology. > > Examples include disabled people now having access to technology > and improving their opportunities through it. Successful small > farming businesses using technology to manage and improve crop > yield and quality. The identification and training of people who > have shown great potential in programming. > > Whilst OOo is not specifically mentioned, HP did fund the > translation of OOo specifically for this project. > > For those that do not know, the HP-441 uses Mandrake as the OS. > > Kindest Regards > > Craig A. Adams > > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 19:43 -0800, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > This story doesn't mention OOo by name, but it talks about > > FLOSS in community centers. We saw lots of examples of this > > while we were filming for the Digital Tipping Point film, and > > it was almost always the same deal: Debian on thin clients > > with OOo as the office productivity tool. The really great > > thing about this piece is that it is on CNN. Are we talking > > digital tipping points? I think so! > > > > http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/02/24/hp.icommunity/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >---- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
