[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“When Andy Rabagliati started working to deliver Internet access
to some poor rural schools, he chose Linux and other open-source
software for the core of his project. His decision was a
no-brainer.“For one thing, he says, he could do things he couldn’t do with
commercial, proprietary software, such as change the programming
code to suit his needs. But there was a more pressing bottom
line.“‘It’s about money, at the end of the day, because we’re in
Africa,’ he says…”