Nice Christmas Story

[EphesiaNZ]

It's funny how people from different paths come together at the crossroads of life for a common purpose, each with their own hopes for the future and fears to combat. I found this a slightly different warming Christmas story which shows how our humility and humanity to others, no matter how small, goes a very long way.

A Very Linux Christmas - FOSS Force

 

[WalksWithChrist]

That's truly amazing. I wonder how the actual dropoff went!

I had the idea of setting up a shop like that long ago when I was a young bench tech that had access to heaps of spare computer parts. What I have done is refurbish/rebuild many systems and then give them to someone that needed a computer.

Here's one notable instance. My wife and I used to watch Monkey Time on public access every week.
Monkey Media Report
That's Todd Mormon's website that hasn't been updated in...forever! But the show is still going. Anyways, one week he announced that his computer had died. I had called into the show before and had met him a couple times at his job at a local bookstore, so I felt comfortable contacting him. I emailed Todd and said I had a computer in my closet ready to go that was collecting dust. He said he wanted it and we arranged for me to drop it off at his house.
I threw in whatever extras I could gather like an old Zip drive and a few other accessories. I show up at his house and he had baked me a mulberry pie!! I'm a former baker and a huge pie freak. I'd never tried mulberry before. It was very unusual, but still made a great pie. He'd picked the berries himself in his back yard. What a great guy.
I was dropping off the computer on my way to a martial arts event that was taking place over a weekend. I shared the pie with a few others and the reactions were mixed, but one guy in particular loved it.
Giving is its own reward.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Cool

From what I remember, Ken (from that article) originally wanted to put a legal copy of Windows XP on the recycled machines but was beaten back by the bean counters at MS,

To quote Ken Starks from an interview,

When we first started out we did contact Microsoft and told them what we wanted to accomplish. On our third attempt to contact them, we did receive a response. They offered us Windows XP SP1 at 50 dollars a license.

Being snubbed by Microsoft was one of the greatest things that could have happened to us. That first year, my project placed 219 computers into the homes that needed them most. 219 children literally had the world at their fingertips. We couldn’t even afford 10 computers with the Microsoft licensing costs.

Here's Ken on a YouTube interview about 4 years ago,

Helios Ken Starks Interview - YouTube

 

[WalksWithChrist]

Cool

From what I remember, Ken (from that article) originally wanted to put a legal copy of Windows XP on the recycled machines but was beaten back by the bean counters at MS,

To quote Ken Starks from an interview,





Here's Ken on a YouTube interview about 4 years ago,

Helios Ken Starks Interview - YouTube

So glad Linux can fill those nasty gaps left my Ms.