[Leaplist] Linux Counter annual notice

[Bob Foxworth]

> > Additional Linux based small laptop computers, with Lite Linux
installed
> > from the get go,  selling for $100, will be available in 2007.  This
> > will boost the numbers and school children (FUTURE USERS) interest
to
> > remarkable heights.


> One of the first takers, is Libya, with $250 million, under a helping
> grant from the U.N. (spelled USA!) so that they get 1.2 MILION Linux
> laptops,  PLUS the wifi network for them to work, PLUS, the contract
> admins to keep it all running!
>
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9469114952.html


Libya? Is this the same Libya that routinely still denies
entry visas to Americans who wish to such subversive
activities as visiting Roman-era archaeological sites?

Not the same Libya that plans to send a number of
European nurses to a firing squad for a trumped up
prosecution over an AIDS case which has very suspect
circumstances about it.  (IMHO etc etc)

If I were on the way to Tripoli for whatever reason (a contract
admin on Kofi's dole, perhaps) I would take only a new
laptop with nothing previously installed/important on it.
And insist on being paid in Euros.

ObTrivia - "Liibiia" the only word in Arabic I know of that
looks the same when written backwards, as forwards.

- Bob