Bill Gates offers free software to Indonesian students
During
the Thursday's meeting here with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,
Gates expressed his commitment to supporting the government's efforts
to improve education quality by providing Internet-based national
education, local newspaper The Jakarta Post reported Friday.
The
government is seeking to obtain software from Microsoft for a million
computers for educational purposes in an effort to cut the ratio of
computers to students from the current 1:1000 to 1:20,Aburizal said.
Gates
said he was ready to help Indonesia get high-quality personal computers
for a price of less than 200 U.S. dollars per unit, plus free software
if Indonesia could make a deal with Intel chairman Craig Barrett, who
will meet Yudhoyono in Jakarta next week.
