Roblimo Abroad: Pushing Linux' Prospects In Jordan

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 25, 2002 @05:00AM from the jeep-they-drove-in-on dept.

Last week, NewsForge editor and Slashdot poster Robin ("roblimo") Miller traveled to Jordan to observe, talk about and foment the free software scene there, in part by speaking at the Open Source Software Workshop held in Amman. How do you grow a software industry in a country with a 30% poverty rate, where water supplies are a bigger concern than ATX power supplies? At the conference Robin spoke at, clearly a big part of that answer is high-quality free software. He notes that "Two gentlemen from Microsoft also spoke. I was in favor of Linux and Open Source. They weren't." Aside from the software side of things (including another plug for the awesome demo power of Knoppix), the report is worth reading to anyone as ignorant of Jordan as I am just to find out more about the place.

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Yeah, but ouch! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-25 05:05 · Score: 2, Funny

There's got to be an easier way to get him to switch than pushing it in him. I bet that CD hurt!
Hooray by srcosmo · 2002-12-25 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

So now we're taking Open- vs. Closed- source to the middle east?
As if they need any more holy wars...

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