quote:We represent how the world is going to use the hardware that people already own, said Eben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia University who also works pro bono for free software causes. Nobody is doing new MS software for 400 Mhz computers, and there simply is no market in the developing world for software at North American monopoly prices.
Their migration path isn't to a new computer, it's to free software, Moglen told LinuxInsider. This will become even more true with the release of Longhorn, which will require hardware that even most people in the developed world do not own today.
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Rufus Polson
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posted 17 November 2004 05:32 PM
I find it interesting that in Africa, where they're poor as dirt, many of the people cited do *not* consider cost the important point about Free software. The Africans Get It. When will we?
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