I found this really cool project in South Africa and I was reminded of a song my father used to sing:
You take a piece of bread.
You put in a slot.
You push the lever down
And the wires get hot.
You get toast. Yeah! Toast!
Except you put a blank CD into this slot and a few minutes later it spits out a toasty copy of your choice of Open Source software. In a country with few financial resources, fewer technological ones and a poor telecommunications infrastructure, this toaster seems like a interesting solution to getting technology into the hands of the people.
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The Open Source Revolution is really taking off in South America as well.
From Worldchanging:
A Revolution Saved By Hackers | Jamais Cascio
In an ideal world, the first country to wholly embrace free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) as a tool for economic and social change would be one that also embraced entirely free/open political discourse. Sadly, we don't live in an ideal world, and the spearhead of an open source revolution may well be Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. We posted last month about Venezuela's law requiring government agencies to transition to FLOSS over a two year period. Now GNU software engineer David Sugar, in a report for Technology & Change, provides more details about Venezuela's adoption of open source technology -- as well as why Chavez owes his continued office to computer hackers.
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