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March 31st, 2006 Pankaj Leave a comment Go to comments

It’s about time that big technology companies began looking into selling computers designed for developing nations. It’s good business for them and it’s good to get rural areas in developing nations trained in using computers. Eventually, people in the community will buy their own computers instead of there being only a few Community based Kiosks. I’m just wondering whether these Community PCs will be running Linux or some stripped down version of Windows.

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