Samuel Young wrote:
Please don't get me wrong. Personally, I have switched to FireFox. My
whole university has moved to using FireFox as the standard browser. 90% of
our servers are either Linux or Unix. Open Source is definitely my friend.
I totally agree that FireFox has alleviated a lot o
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Samuel Young wrote:
> As a CIO of a small university, I can certainly understand why the Gates
> foundation place some limitations or standards on these computers. They
>
Hopefully someone can put together a list of major foundations that put No
restrictions on the grantee organisations, a list of VCs who did not insist
on conditions that had purchase of goods and service advice or restrictions,
any aid that came free.. any donations that were really without strings
Samuel Young wrote:
As a CIO of a small university, I can certainly understand why the Gates
foundation place some limitations or standards on these computers. They
have to assume that these computers are going to locations that do not or
have very little computer support. If that is the case,
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Cindy Lemcke-Hoong wrote:
Moral of the story:
Is there any difference between Microsoft vs the famous 100$ lap-top?
One should ask the same question on that 100 million lap-top order: who gets to manufacture them? who gets pay at the MIT lab, where are the researchers and technical expe
gift comes to one of us
> without such strings attached, what does it say when we accept resources
> from entities that practice their "philanthropy" in this manner?
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Cindy Lemcke-Hoong wrote:
There are more stories of 'strings' . But if I do list them, I am sure someone would tell me they do not belong to this discussions ...
Why? Discussing the pros and cons of working with funders to bridge the
digital divide seems totally on-topic to me.
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