I'm from Argentina. We have a OLPC like plan named "Conectar Igualdad" And the City of Buenos Aires had (or have, I don't know if still running) another one nam

I'm from Argentina. We have a OLPC like plan named "Conectar Igualdad" And the City of Buenos Aires had (or have, I don't know if still running) another one named "Plan Sarmiento". Both plans were the battle zone between Microsoft and open source software community. For the first plan, the government started a project named Huayra Linux, a debian derivate with a bunch of software designed here for the kids. For Sarmiento, it came with a debian tweaked installation, that was barely working because the closed source of the wimax chipset (it was only working for windows, and yes, the students had free internet in the city) The battle was so hard, that Microsoft licensed the windows distribution for 1 dollar each, and they got a contract where all the machines must to be installed with windows. Despite a lot of trials and errors, a lot of work without a project to learn from (maybe ceybal from uruguay is the closest example of a really well project) and the scale (I'm talking about millions of notebooks) I'm sure that open source software is the best from a IT perspective, from social perspective and with the best margin to build things that your school, your students, your city or country needs.