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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. 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

  2. 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

    --
    I should buy some cement.
  3. Watch out for Apple by ville · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    // ville