Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
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Seriously,
These old machines can be the very first computer of a poor kid. Here where I live, Rio de Janeiro/Brasil, there are communities centers that provide computers and internet access to the people. For this kind of thing OpenSource is really nice, if you think that today the software represents the greatest cost when buying a computer... and when it can run on older and cheaper hardware.
More important than that, there are volunteers there to theach people how to use the computers. In Sâo Paulo, the municipal governament is mantaining the "Infocentros" running Linux machines. In this way OpenSource is even better than closed-source, since the knowledge to use it can be as free, thus more people can learn it and benefect from it!
Think about it.