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Linux in the Developing World

Posted by michael on from the next-wave dept.

Norsemann writes "Peter Spotts of the Christian Science Monitor has some very interesting things to say about the latest wave of Linux adoptions throughout Asia and beyond. He hits on some important points about not only China's role in Open Source but the 'global' role in Open Source... Perhaps the best is still yet to come." The BBC also has a nice story about Brazil using Linux in cybercafes.

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  1. "Christian Science" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Isn't that the religion that every once in a while some kid dies because they arn't treated by a doctor?

    They don't believe in doctors or something because God will fix them?

    And none of us are real, we're all in some made-up dream state (Matrix?).

    Strange religion. Sorry, but I wouldn't trust them as a news source. They be broken brains there.

  2. CHRISTIAN science monitor? by CausticWindow · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What on earth makes you think I would want to read anything like that?

    Christian science is a contradiction in terms.

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    1. Re:CHRISTIAN science monitor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Nice. Way to be open-minded... instantly objecting to and dismissing something because it's got the word 'Christian' in the title.

      Oh, that's right, I forgot. In your little twisted shard of unreality, the only people capable of being close-minded are, who else, Christians.

      How does it feel to be such a git?

  3. Just sent a correction into the author... by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Good article, but there was one mistake: "Linus Torvalds took a freely available, stripped-down version of UNIX software and modified it for a PC."

    The stripped-down version he referes to is Minix, a version of Unix written for teaching purposes. It was Minix' limitations, and the author's refusal to accept patches removing those limitations, that led to the creation of Linux. Linux had no Minix code in it.

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