Sinabro

On ComputerWorld UK:

Microsoft may not have beaten French Linux vendor Mandriva in a large deal to supply Nigerian elementary schools with laptop computers and software after all.

Mandriva had closed a deal in mid-August to provide a customised Linux operating system and support for 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs intended for Nigerian schools, but found out last week that the company deploying the computers for the government, Technology Support Center (TSC), planned to wipe the computers’ disks and install Windows XP instead.

Huh. Maybe there’s some good left in this world after all.

BTW, with all these GNU/Linux embrace of the third world, REMEMBER: Microsoft isn’t only making your life inconvenient by breaking formats and ignoring standards—when they break interoperability with other operating systems in order to maintain their monopoly, THEIR ARE STARVING ORPHANS in Nigeria.