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Is Sierra Leone, without Internet and Free Software, just a knowledge landfill?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 24, 2012

One day, when I had almost finished to fix Father Luigi’s laptop, one of his brother came saying “I too have a problem with my computer!”. Father Luigi said, “but yours is a 3 years old laptop: it’s old, all you can do is get a new one” (Of course! Running Windows, it’s full of viruses and useless crap that bog them down!).

I felt the pain inside me: PC consumerism really is a terrible thing to see in the reality of these people: so full of life, yet so deprived of opportunities! And I kept thinking to all these unnecessary expenses caused by Windows: it seems so absurd to spend money for such reasons, in such places.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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