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Bottom-up, not top-down

Posted by: Mark H. Wood on February 18, 2004 01:16 AM
Feel free to just write all kinds of software that developing nations need and give it to them gratis. Link up with grass-roots organizations in the target zones and get volunteers to burn and ship stacks of FOSS product CDs for hand-to-hand distribution. Volunteer to translate documentation. Just route around the problem.

Then it won't matter whether the U.N. accomplishes anything or not. They're not set up to address this sort of problem; you are.

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