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Simputer Runs Into Problems
dejaffa writes "It seems that an Indian Linux-based "computer for the poor" is having financial issues. This has implications for the world digital divide. The story is here (MSNBC, I know, I know). There were originally great hopes for it, as seen here, but money is proving to be the stumbling block."
... th story about Mandrake Hits Wal-Mart who are selling computers for less than twice the price is interesting....
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Reminds me of Cincinnati Ohio's plan to give free condoms to i.v. drug users, when they spread AIDS by sharing needles, not by sex. That was a ridiculous dogooder project. I think Coucilman Tyrone Yates came up with that one.
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