I was delighted to read of a project to distribute a 100 dollar laptop computer to children in developing countries.
Giving these children access to information and the chance to learn more effectively will I think help them out of poverty. More educated people would be likely to elect better governments and would know how to make the best use of the resources available to them.
For $100, a laptop would have an open-source operating system, presumably Linux. Large numbers of these would mean that software publishers have to write software for these laptops. Would the advent of this software mean Linux becomes more common on laptops and desktops in the West?
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