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Iraq's Open Source Possibilities

Posted by simoniker on from the penguins-of-mass-enlightenment dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a Linux Journal article, Iraq's 2 person LUG describes the software consumer market in Iraq today, and their hopes for educating the masses about open-source software: 'Iraq is now a blank, unformatted hard disk and can be loaded with anything. Everything is open in Iraq right now. There are no regimented standards or massive expenditure in a particular monopoly's software'."

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  1. Re:open source versus capitalism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Given that the US is already excluding foreign nations from lucrative rebuilding contracts in Iraq

    Only the three that armed Iraq, not the other 203 that supported the U.S.

  2. Re:Arabic support? by 77Punker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You forget that whatever the Jews do, the Arabs do the opposite.

  3. Opportunities exist by blair1q · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    /. should send in its forces to bust into a few homes to take their un-Linuxian operating systems and make sure they understand the virtues of an open-source society.

    I mean, that sort of think is working well for the Bush administration, isn't it?

    No?

    Jeez.

    I need to read more news and less /.

  4. Re:An unformatted drive ? by b-baggins · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is very true. Their rape rooms, acid bath facilities and mass grave infrastructure were the finest in the world.

    And, I'm fine with people having their own opinions until they start expressing them by blowing up school children, flying airplanes into buildings, and funding and training the same. Then I say, shut up and do as we think, or we'll come and kick the snot out of you.

    Choke on it, but we are the good guys, here and they are not.

    --
    You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.