You have a point: I am very sad to see (and this is not news, I admit), that the problem "The Right to Read" is not perceived as a problem for people. Ten years

You have a point: I am very sad to see (and this is not news, I admit), that the problem "The Right to Read" is not perceived as a problem for people. Ten years ago, it was a problem for the ACM community, and imho the problem only got worse with time, because it is becoming latently ubiquitous. Maybe it does have to do with the functional illiteracy, even among the ranks of the highly literate. You are also right about the cheap Dell: they do have ubuntu, but price/performance pales in comparison to say, Vista. I can only hope, that the Japanese market will embrace this product -- they generally have one of the strongest FreeBSD culture, which might be enough for the kickstart.