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On Saturday 25 January 2003 12:52, zentara wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:53:53 -0500
Doug McGarrett
wrote: If you have a high school in your area, you might contact the science teacher, or the math teacher, or maybe they really have a computer teacher--not one that merely teaches Word for Windows--and donate your old versions there. I should think that versions older than about three dot numbers might not be welcome. I.E. 7.1 might be OK, but not older. That's just my guess.
I remember awhile back, someone from Africa was asking for donated old distributions. He said the price of a new boxed set was more than some people there earn in a month, and downloading the free distros was out of the question because the best connections they can get are phone lines.
Hey maybe that would be a good "charity to start". Collect old boxed sets, and economically ship them over on a boat in containers. Maybe Bill Gates would donate some of his "Charity" money to the cause. :-)
there was an Australian organization in the news a while back, they were donating old PCs to Vietnam & other Asian countries - Microsoft got upest because they were installing old (not current) MS products on them & demanded they desist. They installed a linux distro (not sure which one). PM