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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. The Iraqi people themselves ARE telling us by chrisbord · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are many 'Blogs' by actual Iraqis. Check out this one by a particularly brilliant and inspiring Iraqi named Alaa: (in English)

    http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/

    1. Re:The Iraqi people themselves ARE telling us by WildBeast · · Score: 5, Informative

      Or you can check it this one, who actually represents what most of the Iraqis feel.

      http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

      And this one by the first Iraqi blogger

      http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/