> I envison a third world country investing in such
> commodity items, building computer labs based on them
> (with NetBSD at the core) and educating a whole new
> wave of programmers/computer literate people. Sound
> unlikely? The possibility exists. Look at all of these


The well tested rule is:

the worse and cheaper computers are available, the higher is a chance of
educating competent programmers/admis etc.

at least in polish school.



> devices around us that are destined for the dumpster,
> yet are able to run NetBSD just fine. And what do we
> NEED 2.4 ghz processors for? Certainly not anything

we don't need most cases. but "they" want us to buy them. to buy another
after a year, then after a year, and buy, buy,buy,buy,pay,pay and never
think.