🚀 go-pugleaf

Kevin Georgison (keving@freenet.mb.ca) wrote:
: On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 22:42:21 GMT, mross@GlobalInnovations.com wrote:

: ... SNIP ...

: > Industry minister John Manley announced yesterday that more than 700
: > rural communities across the country will be getting grants of up to
: > $30,000 each to setup public Internet access sites and train local
: > residents and businesses to use the technology.

: That is hardly enough!  Unless...  A Pentium Pro with at least 128
: megs running Linux is used (no cheap hardware either!) and a group of
: talented volunteers with lots of time on their hands hangs around.

This is rather like giving a starving man a coffee and a bun and then 
feeling good about it.

It does nothing about the long distance charges which such communities 
typically bear.

It would be good to get some feedback as to how these communities have 
benefitted from Manley's munificence.