> I was on a crypto panel discussion the other day, and as we chatted
> afterwards I learned that the moderator, an interesting and pleasant
> guy, had recently received a windfall in the hundreds of millions of
> dollars. He is Mark Shuttleworth, the head of Thawte Communications,
> a South African crypto certificate company which was recently acquired
> by Verisign, the big US certifier.
> ...
> His plans for the money involve funding various startups and ventures
> in Africa in the hopes of improving the terrible conditions there.
> In particular he hopes that improving communications so as to make
> Internet access widespread will go a long way towards alleviating the
> ignorance and government control which has kept the continent in chains
> for so long.
A large number of fortified Freenet nodes in various jurisdictions
would go a log way...
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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