I read a couple of days ago about an international project
called One Laptop Per Child. This aims to provide every child in the
developing world with a wind-up, wireless-internet enabled PC.
Apparantly they have a working prototype which would be provided to
interested governements as about $100 USD a piece. It seems almost
every governement in the world is interested in the project to a
greater or lesser extent.
What makes this REALLY intersting is that they have chosen Linux
(Fedora) as the operating system. Now aint that food for thought? In a
few years time we could have litterally tens of millions of PC users
to whom IT =LINUX, not Windows, countless thousands of young people
basing business enterprises on Linux, thousands of new Linux
developers. A whole new global mindset that doesn't include Microsoft.
Call me an  optomist and dreamer, but this could kill Microsoft stone
dead.










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