[SLL] Look ma, we're in the papers!

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007, Glenn Stone wrote:
>
>It seems that the OLPC project made the AP... from darkest Peru, no less:
>
>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/345036_onelaptop27.html
>
>It's a good article, too; well-written, presenting detractors' concerns and
>the competition in addition to the "front end" of the story... 
>
>Peru has ordered over a quarter-million of the things.  That's a lot of
>silicon, boys and girls.  And it's all running penguins.  

Peru has been quite active on the FOSS front for several years
now.  Probably the best piece of web debate, answering all of the
Microsoft FUD is in the URL below.  He took the M$ argument apart
chapter and verse.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/19/ms_in_peruvian_opensource_nightmare/

A more recent article from KOMO radio is:

http://www.komoradio.com/news/tech/12802452.html

Bill
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