Computers for the Third World: A new plan for cheap computing for
impoverished third-world countries involves giving them
PlayStations
running Linux, considerably cheaper than industry-standard Wintendo PCs.
Mind you, given that the World Bank is behind it, it may be more used to
set up data-entry
maquiladoras on the cheap, where children can be
chained to their desks for 18 hours a day than to actually empower the Third
World to be anything more than a more flexible source of slave labour.