[News] Telegraph Covers Linux Laptops Story from Africa

"DFS" <nospam.RemoveThis@dfs_.com> writes:

> dapunka wrote:
>
>> The governments of many (most? all?) of the countries in question are
>> crippled by the repayments they have to give to YOUR government, for
>> loans that were made to their corrupt predecessors.
>
> The countries that have signed up for OLPC computers are Argentina, Brazil,
> Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand and Uruguay
>
> Which are crippled by loan repayments to the USA? And which are crippled by
> their own political corruption?
>
> uh huh
>
>
>
>
>> The money that a
>> fair number of these countries could make from valuable natural
>> resources is lost to swindling multinational corporations
>
> Really? Last I heard the valuable natural resources of, for instance,
> Zimbabwe were being squandered by Robert Mugape and his retarded land
> redistibution policy (kill and steal from the smart White farmers and give
> to his dumbshit black cronies). The result is a disaster, of course.


Get hold of a copy of John Le Carre's new book "The Mission Song". Great
read. Based on the Congo and the corruption from inside and out.

____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 01 August 2007 09:56 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups.RemoveThis@schestowitz.com> espoused:
>> ____/ birre on Tuesday 31 July 2007 09:49 : \____
>>
>>> On 2007-07-23 17:46, DFS wrote:
>>>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Linux performs well on low-end hardware, though.
>>>>
>>>> hmmm... the OS that nobody wants runs "well" on the hardware that nobody
>>>> wants.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You make a fool of yourself DFS.
>>> This is for starving kids that never will get the chance to learn anything,
>>> or be anything.
>>> Now, one man Nicholas Negroponte work without any pay, and use his own
>>> money and time to give them a chance, but you will make them to Microsoft
>>> customers, hired for nothing programmers, a gang of software pirates, or
>>> even killed when criminal gangs collect their ultra gaming laptops.
>>>
>>> This project is made by peoples that think about the users, and their
>>> situation. They are a lot smarter then you.
>>
>> Well said.
>>
>
> There is a certain blindness to a lot of people here when it comes to
> helping less fortunate people.

Gates and the Gang just seek more money and power. It's a disease. Apparently
it's also 'infectious' (like obesity) when one lives in a very wealthy
neighbourhood in Redmond.

Society ought to send such pathological minds to some island, just like
Napoleon. Let them harm /each other/, rather than try to exploit and bring
harm to everyone that surrounds them.

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