What Happened to the Mexican Scholar Project?

derwisch writes "In an older article on this site it was stated that Mexico's schools were about to see 140000 computers with Linux installed on top of them. As the original information site has 404'ed, I would like to know if anything became of this project. "

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I don't know if anything -has- come of it...

[jd]

...but I -do- know that it's Mexico's next best chance of going from a patch of nowhere to being a world leader and a potential next-generation superpower.

(I'm serious! As computers become more and more significant in the global economy, who controls the computers controls the world. And if Mexico can become even moderately computer-literate with an advanced OS such as Linux, it can waltz past those nations weighted down with Windows millstones round their necks.)

If Mexico wants to pick itself up, and regain pride in itself, it almost -has- to adopt Linux. As it is, Mexico's only really known for what other countries have copied or taken.

I'm not suggesting Mexico takes on the rest of the world, or anything, but if it doesn't leapfrog the "industrial nations", what's left of the country simply won't survive. There's no future in playing catch-up, with most of the resources needed drying up and destroying the environment.