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From the first comment in the article:

Exactly who is giving that money to Camobdja I've checked the aid numbers and they say nothing about 400 million Crowns. Sweden do give ~150 million Crowns per year to Cambodja. See: http://www.openaid.se/countries/kambodja

So Sweden apparently already has a regular aid budget to Cambodia.

Sweden's annual foreign aid budget is $5,3B USD, and is generally considered to be well-run. Even if the reported number is accurate, that would only be 1% of the reported annual aid budget, an amount not at all inappropriate for a country like Cambodia.

Oh, and humans suck at detecting coincidence intuitively. The sample size of possible events one could find suspicious is enormous, as is the search space on individuals around whom you might suspect a conspiracy exists. Conspiracies feed themselves because of this.

Swedish development aid to Cambodia began in 1979. Since then Sweden has given millions of dollars to Cambodia. The article by The Next Web and Torrent Freak have no evidence at all to back their claim. It's biased reporting, based on no research and strong prejudice. It is ridiculous to claim that Sweden would use millions of dollars to arrest a man, who is, from government perspective, a petty criminal.

http://www.sida.se/English/Countries-and-regions/Asia/Cambodia/Our-work-in-Cambodia/

"Sweden’s development aid to Cambodia began in 1979. Humanitarian efforts have gradually given way to long-term cooperation. In the current cooperational strategy (2008-2010) our cooperation is focused on supporting reforms for decentralization and democratization, and human rights through support for the development of civil society and education."

Since 1979? Hmmm. It has not been that effective.

Pardon me for being insistent, but "openoffice.org" is a Web address, not a name. If the company that makes it doesn't want their customers to call it "Open Office," they should change the name. (They should probably change the name in any case. "Open Office" doesn't exactly stir the soul.)

That's not being insistent, it's being stupid. OpenOffice.org is the name of the software. The original poster was correct, you tried to correct him but looked like an idiot because you were wrong and then I corrected you. It's a very simple sequence of events; do try and keep up. As for what you think of the name, nothing you've posted so far inspires me to assign any value to your opinion.

Numbers.

A meaningless non-response with nothing to back it up, almost certainly indicating that you have no basis for your opinion. This is unsurprising.

No, it was supposed to be illustrative. Reading comprehension much?

Illustrative of what? That you don't hire competent people? That you change your hardware and software platform whenever you change IT personnel? It's certainly not illustrative of anything regarding open source software.

> We use open source software because we like the support, reliability and licensing freedom.

How odd. Because it has none of those three things.

I don't normally go in for personal attacks but you're really not a very honest person, are you? Starting from the end:

For you to claim that open source software doesn't provide licensing freedom is either stupid or dishonest. Since you're apparently capable of operating a computer with at least minimal competency I find it difficult to believe that you could be stupid enough to believe what you said. So you've apparently lying. Unfortunately you chose to lie about a subject that the Slashdot audience understands reasonably well so you're not going to get very far.

As for reliability, there are plenty of studies that show the reliability of open source.

And finally, support. I don't think this will be news to anyone except (perhaps) you but paid support is available for open source software. Linux is supported by distributions such as Redhat and Novell, Apache & Tomcat are supported by companies like JBoss and Samba is supported by a truly huge list of companies in many countries. As another poster pointed out, OpenOffice.org has commercial support available from companies like Blue Point

You shouldn't bother replying to this, but if you do be sure to bring some facts to back up your position. Your blind assertions do not impress.

Swedish foreign aid kicks ass.
I have a deep respect for theese guys, and actually I'm thinking of how I best could support them, getting personally involved.
Much of SIDAs focus is on education, through the principle:
"give a man a fish, and he avoids hunger for a day, teach a man to fish and he's never hungry again"

It's not like some other countries, dumping subsided genetically modified crops (Montesano) into the third world, and in stead of actively doing something about AIDS (cheap blocking medicine, condoms) just preaching abstinence.
Before someone gripes about the above statement, please remind yourself of that waging a war in a foreign country somewhere is NOT aid, no matter what you think. It is neither the best way of helping people or the best way for reducing terrorism. Fact. Education/Tolerance is.
You should also the facts on exactly how good your country is at giving aid, before flaming this post: http://www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=3249.

Having said that:
I have an idea for a Aid-scheme: Why can't someone (US? UN?) give aid in the form of a factory for making solar cells somewhere in africa (south africa?), also aiding in setting up solar farms in deserted rural places all through africa? The plus to africa would mean cheap or free energy, and also the west purchasing back the surplus energy that theese farms produce would support theese countries in the long run.

Its just an idea - but it's good and sustainable ideas that are needed. Here the brainpower of you ./ ers could make all the difference.

Oh, well - this post will probably never be moderated high enough for anyone to actually see it...

Exactly how do the money from us Swedish taxpayers being utterly wasted on Swahili software localisation matter to the Slashdot readership?

Fuck you, SIDA! And fuck The Party!