[Fsf-friends] Low-cost Brazilian PC...

[Khuzaima A. Lakdawala]

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> Curing Poverty with Computing

The person who coined that title should be nominated for the award of
the "Most absurd (Absurdest?) title of a news story."

> Brazilian University Researchers Build Cheap Computers for the Masses
> Ben Goertzel
> http://www.goertzel.org/benzine/BrazilianComputers.htm
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> here is an excerpt
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> "The idea here was to create a computer that members of the Brazilian
> underclass could genuinely afford.=A0 The Net PC will cost around $400 re=
iais

The "Brazilian underclass" must be "genuinely" scratching their heads
over this one. Some of the poorest people in the western hemisphere
would be far more worried about getting a roof over their heads, about
getting their street-children off the streets, about getting a decent
job in an economy wrecked by neo-liberalism... not about acquiring a
computer running a, hold your breath,

> freeware Linux OS [!]