the problem is how many people will use open source with it. Most will try to pirate windows. Furthermore, i think we have a ready supply to fulfill geeks needs for old computers, without importing more. If we follow such an argument, we will continue been on this Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste#Hotspots
Opponents of surplus electronics exports argue that lower environmental and labor standards, cheap labor, and the relatively high value of recovered raw materials leads to a transfer of pollution-generating activities, such as burning of copper wire. In China, Malaysia, India, Kenya, and various African countries, electronic waste is being sent to these countries for processing, sometimes illegally. Many surplus laptops are routed to developing nations <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_nation> as "dumping grounds for e-waste".[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste#cite_note-tmc-1> Because the United States has not ratified the Basel Convention<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Convention> or its Ban Amendment<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Convention#Basel_Ban_Amendment>, and has no domestic laws forbidding the export of toxic waste, the Basel Action Network <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Action_Network> estimates that about 80% of the electronic waste directed to recycling in the U.S. does not get recycled there at all, but is put on container ships<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship> and sent to countries such as China.[9]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste#cite_note-harm-8> [14] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste#cite_note-13>[15]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste#cite_note-14> [16] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste#cite_note-ng-15> This figure is disputed as an exaggeration by the EPA, the Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries, and the World Reuse, Repair and Recycling Association<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Reuse,_Repair_and_Recycling_Association> .