Many of the people who use the IT room in the community centre (that I
keep banging on about) do so because they don't have a computer of their
own. I am playing around with the idea of making available old laptops
(of which there seems to be an inexhaustible supply hereabouts), loaded
with some suitable Linux build which I haven't devised yet. Yeah, I
know there are all sorts of technical considerations; I'll get to those eventually. Maybe.
But if I'm to give someone a laptop (or maybe sell it to them real
cheap) there's no point unless they have some kind of internet access at
home. So here's the question: who knows what the cheapest possible
broadband service is (speed isn't important; data volumes might not be
either). I'm worried that it's a bit like giving someone a car; it
might look like doing them a favour, but what it actually is is a
financial headache.
BTW, it was this website that prompted my interest
http://www.freeitathens.org/about_us/
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Henry Law n e w s @ l a w s h o u s e . o r g
Manchester, England
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