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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.
like anyone would roblimo seriously. Or cmdrtaco. They're just a couple of dorks who lucked out on a lame web site that won't even be here in a couple of years, when the rest of the linux companies crash to earth. Oh what you say? Slashot isn't a linux company, it's news for nerds? Could have fooled me. If this site was pro-microsoft, you'ld be calling it a Microsoft SHILL. An advertisement for the big bad company.
Merry Christmas wishes you!
Here in Syria we have a very primitive infrastructure. Using free software is one way to cut costs. I'm promoting free software everywhere I go. Some problems we have is that most programs aren't full unicode aware, but we're working on patches that we then submit to the authors.
Mike Bouma : mike@talk21.com
Or, you can just kill the poor. Like how New York was/is going to put the homeless on old rusty cruise ships and dock them somewhere. Well, once they are on the ship, just tow it out in to the Atlantic and sink it. Problem solved.