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Roblimo Abroad: Pushing Linux' Prospects In Jordan
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.
Merry Christmas.
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-Francis
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to Micheal Jordan for choosing Linux !
*** Insert Unfunny American Joke about Jordan, the country next to Iraq, just north of Korea, somewhere outside of the USA here ***
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
Try saying that in Jordan slothboy and they'll cut your millimeter monster off before you could say, "Stallman is my ass bitch."
Fucking dork.
Try saying something like that in person to someone when they make a comment, social retard.
Good job, you just made your entire Arab race look like the bunch of uncivilized barbarians that we have always believed they are. Way to elevate yourself. I don't need to point out that this makes people think there's a reason for the racial slur that likens Arabs to the stereotype of lazy blacks in America.