Let's hope they make the right choice and don't just get children addicted to (and controlled) by foreign monopolies.

Recent:

"Microsoft suborned the One Laptop Per Child project, converting it into a massive Windows training campaign. The project says it is giving the purchasing governments 'more choice' by supporting Windows as well as GNU/Linux, but those governments will tend to choose Windows by default. In some countries, people will campaign to prevent that. If these campaigns succeed, the OLPC project may yet make a positive contribution to the world. Otherwise, it will do overall harm."

Second, talking about the standards fight in which Microsoft succeeded in having its OOXML format accepted as an open standard in rivalry to the ODF format favored by OpenOffice.org and other free office applications, Stallman notes that "Microsoft corrupted many members of ISO in order to win approval for its phony 'open' document format, OOXML. This was so governments that keep their documents in a Microsoft-only format can pretend that they are using 'open standards.' The government of South Africa has filed an appeal against the decision, citing the irregularities in the process."

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Yup if I was those kids living in mud shacks and getting a cool new tech toy for FREE, the first thing I'd check is to see if it's a ploy by some big old successful software company to trick me into learning technology.

Besides, this is happening in Ethiopia, so the chances of their corrupt government actually distributing the donated computers to mere kids is next to none.