Belgium: A Computer in Every Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday January 10, 2002 @04:20PM from the and-a-chicken-in-every-pot dept.

joost writes "In an article published online by Belgian newspaper 'Het Nieuwsblad' (sorry only a dutch link), Belgian minister Miss Laurette Onkelinx speaks about her plan to provide every Belgian household with a computer. The minister is (amongst other things) responsible for 'equality' and therefore pushes the plan to provide the less fortunate with a pc. In the same article, she said she already started talking to Compaq for the hardware and Microsoft for the OS. Belgian Linux users are starting a campaign to petition Miss Onkelinx's departement, explaining their concern about the decision, and advising to look towards linux for an alternative.(more on be.comp.os.linux) You too can send an email by clicking here."

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Thoughtless Hemos... by Usquebaugh · 2002-01-10 16:28 · Score: 5, Offtopic

You put an email address on the front page of /. and you do not even obscure it.

/. is _NOT_ the place to post email addresses of individuals who are percieved not to get it. The typical /. reader is not going to be objective or polite. It mostly certainly is not going to aid the cause of putting Linux on these machines.

I wonder if /. hurts more than helps the wide spread adoption of Linux?