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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. Nerd friendly TLD.... by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. Fresh Hard Disk by Veovis · · Score: 5, Funny
    'Iraq is now a blank, unformatted hard disk and can be loaded with anything.

    Spyware Cookies, Banners, Popups, and Porn, oh wait thats the United States

  3. Re:open source versus capitalism by monadicIO · · Score: 3, Funny

    What Microsoft? I only know BechtelOS and HalliburtonOS.

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    The law of excluded middle : Either I'm foo or I'm foobar

  4. Sign of the times by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Iraq is now a blank, unformatted hard disk and can be loaded with anything.

    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?

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  5. Re:open source versus capitalism by pheared · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  6. A little help? by violet16 · · Score: 5, Funny

    [bush@iraq /usr/local] rpm -ivh opensourcesoftware-0.1.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 /usr/local] rpm -ivh democracy-1.0.i386.rpm
    Segmentation fault: population not formatted for democracy-1.0

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    I should buy some cement.
  7. Re:As much as I would like to see... by nounderscores · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:As much as I would like to see... by clem · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
  9. Watch out for Apple by ville · · Score: 5, Funny

    Watch out before Apple moves in undetected and it becomes iRaq.

    // ville