Re: [SLUG] Speaking of Radio Shows ...

[Andy Eager <eagera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah,  I heard about that too.  I also heard a few months back now of a 
similar situation in Melbourne where a bunch of guys (not kids) were 
doing the same thing but with Linux as the OS.

I don't know about you, but I for one would be quite happy to donate 
some time into helping people in these sorts of situations (Ie 
non-profit, community based schemes) find linux solutions to their problems.

Most of these sorts of 'public' machines don't need too much more than 
an easy to use GUI for web surfing, email and basic word processing.

Andrew E.


Richard Blackburn wrote:

> Apparently there was some item on ABC's News Radio this weekend about a
> group called PCs For Kids; a group that fixes up old boxes for kids on
> the wrong side of the digital divide. I didn't hear it, but I gather the
> jist of the story is that M$ has effectively shut them down due to
> licensing problems. Anyone heard of this situation and is there anything
> we could do? Maybe the executive could try to find out about it and
> organise a special install day or something like that?
> Richard