<incom> consumers of the future

[Steve Cisler]

This has been going on officially in Latin America for
several years. A group that provides support for
telecenters in the region has supported this program
by Microsoft (perhaps just a regional office program)
and also Linux--at no charge. Telecenters usually
would go for the cheapest solution and that was either
pirated goods or Linux. However, many places found
Linux support too high and welcomed the legal/cheap MS
products.  I know that in Ecuador MS office did
provide pretty good support for the product, at no
charge. From what my contacts said, people moved from
both Linux (hard to support) and pirated goods to
legal MS products.  And of course there are some sites
that used both open source and MS software.

Steve Cisler

Steve Cisler
Center for Science Technology and Society
Santa Clara University
http://scu.edu/sts/