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MISTICA: Lindows y Caribe

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 08:57:08 AST

>Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:05:01 -0400
>From: SDNP Newsmaster <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: NITNews for 24 September 2002 (EXTRACTS)
>
>---- The New Challenge to Microsoft
> There are promising signs that Linux, which has been around for years,
> may finally be taking off. More than two dozen countries ? including
> Germany and China ? have begun to encourage governmental agencies to use
> such "open source" software. In the home market, Wal-Mart has started
> selling a home computer called Lindows, which runs on Linux. Early
> reviews have been mixed, but its $199 price tag shows the savings Linux
> could deliver.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=4553&do=gpage
>
>
>---- Telecolonialism Scuttles Efforts to Bridge Digital Divide
>To illustrate how the pernicious effect of telecolonialism can undermine
>concerted efforts of developing countries to bridge the digital divide,
>the story of the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication
>Organisations (Canto) is worth recounting. Formed in 1985 in response to
>the digital divide manifested as inequitable division of revenue from
>overseas calls between state-owned telephone companies and foreign-owned
>international circuit providers, Canto started its existence by barring
>Cable & Wireless from its membership.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=4557&do=gpage

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