Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> MassMutual gives computers
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> | MassMutual Financial Group donated 100 computers to Springfield
> | Technical Community College yesterday for use by students who cannot
> | afford to purchase a computer.
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> | [...]
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> | Four STCC students will refurbish the computers, which are about
> | three to four years old, and load them with free open source software,
> | a Linux-based system called Ubuntu.
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http://www.masslive.com/springfield/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1171357553137060.xml&coll=1
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Giving computers to poor people. You realise what will happen don't you.
You will get poor people learning about computers, some becoming programmers
some others becoming technical support, so taking away jobs from well off
folk. We might even get some jumped up poor person developing a new system
entirely, on his/her free professional class compiler, showing us all up by
releasing a new OS that is obviously a much better one than anything that
came before, handing it over to us with a look of 'why didn't you lot think
of this?'.
Then others will be less interested in the computer itself and more
interested in what it can do. They might look out onto the Internet and
realise that they really is more to life, more to see more to do and more
to learn. Gads we could have genious's crawling out of the dusty alleys all
over the place.
And quite right too. Many of the greatest that have ever lived started from
humble beginnings, maybe it is that that gives them the edge, the need to
study harder, I think it very likely. This scheme puts them on our door
step, working in the Linux world.
You know I bet we all have at least one PC worth of parts under the bed (or
desk), that could be knocked together and given away. I would much rather
they went to the inner cities than sat there collecting dust. Unless like
me you are yourself one of the poor people, I'm poor, my butler is poor, my
chef is poor and my showfer is the poorest of all of us.
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