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Iraq's Open Source Possibilities
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'."
It's .iq
Impress your friends with http://high.iq
Seriously though, it's a great article and Iraq is SO perfect right now to be the open course society from the get-go.
Adam did a great job writing this.
Spyware Cookies, Banners, Popups, and Porn, oh wait thats the United States
Lets just hope that whoever is formating the hard disk doesn't doesn't format it using FAT file system.
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One is born into aristocracy, but mediocrity can only be achieved through hard work.
What Microsoft? I only know BechtelOS and HalliburtonOS.
The law of excluded middle : Either I'm foo or I'm foobar
We used to just say, "we're going to turn your country into a parking lot." Now what is it, we're going to load a diagnostic and low level format your ass?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You have to hand it to the Bush administration it really know how to make a bad situation worse.
If by that you mean: Knows how to make itself look really stupid and get the entire world to begin stereotyping all americans as warmongering monkeys, then yes, I am in agreement.
Right now, they mean it literally when they say "somone set us up the bomb."
Why bother? Nevada has the same attributes, and it's much closer to home.
Top ten things to load into a blank country:
[bush@iraq /usr/local] rpm -ivh opensourcesoftware-0.1.i386.rpm /usr/local] rpm -ivh democracy-1.0.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
personalcomputers.so.4.1.2 is needed by opensourcesoftware-0.1
electricity.so.0.9.6 is needed by opensourcesoftware-0.1
domesticlawandorder.so.1.0 is needed by opensourcesoftware-0.1
[bush@iraq
Segmentation fault: population not formatted for democracy-1.0
I should buy some cement.
What would an OS govt be like? Everybody (Every community) can edit the constitution and laws, try them out and then upload them to the CVS?
"This just in from Amsterdam, the Weed feature is nearing beta! Everybody download it, and hit the wiki."
These guys are trying, but they don't have enforcement powers tied to a wiki page.
Linux has a stable kernel, that counts for something right?
However, the biggest obstacle is that Linux hasn't been ported to run on rubble.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
Watch out before Apple moves in undetected and it becomes iRaq.
// ville
yep linux will give us world peace. oh wait, no it won't, you're a freaking idiot.
I'm not sure if this was sarcastic or not, but I'll answer anyway.
The reason I know so much about this, and the true situation in Iraq, is because I do not get my news from the mainstream media. I certainly read a lot of articles in the mainstream press, but I doubt them, because of how wrong they often are (one example: CNN did not report all of the murders they knew about in Iraq, just so that Saddam would allow them to continue reporting inside Iraq. The truth didn't matter, only the ability to stay in Iraq). The person who gives a clear view on the facts in Iraq is Rush Limbaugh.
Rush picks up on the many reports of individual soldier/engineers reporting on these situations, as well as some of the reporters who go over there, and are shocked by how different the situation is from how the mainstream media reports it.
Yes, he is a somewhat biased person, but he certainly does not lie. He reports, and then gives his (very accurate) opinion. I'm guessing he is not broadcast in Norway, but if you want to listen to him you can go to rushlimbaugh.com.