Intel is offering an affordable computer in rural areas of China. …the product sells for $350 using an inexpensive but high-quality Intel processor, with an expected take rate of 73 percent. The originator of the document believes that they will sell hundreds of millions of units. The operating system marketed with the product uses an unnamed distribution of Linux.
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Personally, I consider it somewhat of a betrayal of the American people. If Intel can sell a Linux computer in rural China, why can’t they do the same thing in the United States? What about the No Child Left Behind Act signed by President Bush in January 2002? What about the poor in the US who, with proper training, could easily fill the supposed skills gap that has led to the overseas outsourcing of so many crucial, even sensitive, IT jobs?

– Leaked memo from Intel shows Major Linux Effort

I’m in agreement with the second paragraph up there: if Intel can sell such computers overseas, why aren’t they trying to here? There are plenty of people in the US who could otherwise afford a computer if it didn’t automatically come with the huge overhead caused by Microsoft Windows. Solution: make it easy to purchase a PC with an operating system that doesn’t cost anything.