Yes gaz has hit it on the head.
We need government to back peoples right to share their broadband connection
with their neighbours. It is against the small print of most broadband
contracts I believe. However if a whole side of a street could share one ADSL
line via wireless or ethernet through the back gardens it would make connecting
the as people have rightly observed 'nearly free' PCs up to the net far more
doable. As people get a bit more income/desire for speed they could invest in
their own line, but keeping the local net as then everyone's connection could
be redundant.
This is what we need to get the Government to help with. They need to get a
promise out of the broadband providers that people will not be disconnected for
in effect becoming the first step in providing the net to their neighbours.
What we can do is provide a way of doing this (like the OLPT (One Laptop per
Child) project does) without it needing a resident network guru to keep it
going.
There are of course vested interests who will oppose this. If people share
connections on a local level the Record Companies and Film Studious will have a
much harder job hounding people for copyright infringements, especially if that
sharing is done by open wireless links.
Message: 3
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 17:35:43 +0100
From: gazz<pmg...@gmx.co.uk>
To:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 - lets give EVERYONE buying
a second user PC a chance to try Linux.
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On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 11:31 +0100, alan c wrote:
> On 23/05/11 09:53, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>
> > They're specifically not. If, on first boot, they were presented with
> > Grub asking if they wanted Linux or Windows
>
> with respect, I think the choice is between 'Ubuntu' and Windows
>
> --
> alan cocks
> Ubuntu user
>
The howling silence I notice about the whole 'Race Online' think is that
cheap 'puter's aren't the issue. Pretty much anyone can get their hands
on a PC capable of running a sensible Linux distro.
The issue we keep coming across is the heavy recurring cost of broadband
in the UK for low-income households.
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