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How Linux Can Help Reduce Poverty
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| Poverty is a global problem, which is not limited to third world developing
| countries. Even mature developed nations like United States has ~18% poverty
| rate. There are many reasons and causes of poverty, which includes but not
| limited to, natural disasters, war, disease, politics, religion, and
| over-population and so on and so forth. Some of these causes are beyond our
| control while others are beyond our means. There is no single factor that can
| totally eliminate poverty, even the almighty latest Linux Kernel release; but
| many ideas and anti-poverty initiative can come together to reduce the causes
| of poverty.
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http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/10/12/how-linux-can-help-reduce-poverty/
Related:
Is there money in them thar open source hills?
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| The longer I work in open source, the more it's clear to me that opens
| ource can crack the billion-dollar barrier. I live it every day, and advise
| a range of companies that are successfully tracking billion-dollar
| trajectories.
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| Will people pay seven figures-plus for open source? Of course. Just ask
| SugarCRM, Red Hat, JBoss, or MySQL. I personally see a range of six-figure
| deals crossing my desk, with seven-figure deals a quarter away. Open source
| does not equal poverty; open source equals massive opportunity. Thei
| ndustry is rapidly maturing, and that maturity leads to open source,
| and rising profits therein.
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| Five years from now, no one will bother selling proprietary bits anymore.
| Why would they? The only thing that is lacking today is understanding of
| the business models that are driving open source success.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/09/is_there_money.html
Social inclusion with Xubuntu: A tale of free software changing lives
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| M6-IT, a Community Interest Community in the UK, are part way through a
| project to equip socially excluded families with computers running Xubuntu.
|
| [...]
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| The project is funded from a local regeneration budget, and supported by a
| partnership of four local schools called Quadrant C. Working with them we
| have identified pupils moving into secondary school who don’t have access to
| a home computer. We invite the families to a training session. The next step
| is to provide Internet access and a home computer for the family.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/social_inclusion_xubuntu_tale_free_software_changing_lives
Hi-Tech Under The Tree - Hey...It's What We Do.
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| Komputers4Kids has had a good year. To this date, we have either built or
| been donated 110 computers for financially or socially under-privileged kids.
| We here at Lobby4Linux have installed each one of them and then taught them
| how to use their new Linux System.
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/393-Hi-Tech-Under-The-Tree-Hey...Its-What-We-Do..html
Students may get recycled computers
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| All of the hard drives have been reformatted so it contains no
| district information. Each computer will also include a free set
| of software which will include a word processing application,
| a photo manipulation application and a few games along with a
| Linux operating system.
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http://www.wcmessenger.com/news/news/EEZlAlVkEpEFmkSpXI.php
Vector Linux Environmental Stewards
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| I would like to extend my thanks and complements to everyone involved in
| making Vector Linux adaptable, flexible and user friendly. My Lions Club
| sponsors a Computers for Kids program where we refurbish surplus computers,
| load Vector as the OS
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| [...]
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| I don't claim to be a Linux expert or evangelist. We are just trying
| to give underprivileged kids in our community access to world class
| technology and a level playing field.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/9647.html
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