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Getting Open Source to the Dialup Masses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the those-laurels-are-getting-downright-restless dept.

WillSmith writes "South Africa's Mark Shuttleworth Foundation has a solution to getting open source out to places with low broadband : the "freedom toaster". The idea is simple : a bring-and-burn software kiosk."

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  1. mirror please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    /. is kinda like counterstrike. Once ya stand out, yer dead.

  2. Another Simple Idea by katana · · Score: 2, Funny

    I call it "the mail." Each house gets a local kiosk called a "mailbox." Whenever someone needs Open Source software, a central "server" sends the software to the "mailbox" in "trucks."

    Someone should totally do this.