Nice catch Flint and thanks for sharing!  That's an amazing project and
Brazil has been steadily working at implementing FOSS throughout their
government for several years now (Maddog has been down there a number of
times working with them as posted in his Linux Journal articles).

It's all very cool... I *love* the up to 5 seats per physical PC idea;
really, how much CPU will a school child need?  It's not likely that
they're compiling big software and need tones of resources.  A very nice
way to leverage the incredibly powerful computers we all take so much
for granted :)  Now if we could open up the minds of our local
legislative and educational folks to the opportunities presented by this
project...

Rubin

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 15:19 -0400, Paul Flint wrote:
> That's millions of people folks!
> 
> http://piacentini.livejournal.com/7871.html
> 
> --
> Intellectual property can stimulate innovation, so can war... in both
> cases the negatives don't justify the 'progress'.... In recent times,
> humanity has spent more effort in producing smaller mp3 players and
> cell-phones than clean water and sanitation for everybody... isn't it
> time to reevaluate how we motivate people? 
> --
> 
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