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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'."
Unless Haliburton has recently gone into the software buisness, Microsoft will get any "reconstruction contract" involving computer infrastructures.
Then, guess who'll be in charge of "educating" the Iraqis in computer use?
I'm sure Bill's charity will donate a bunch of intel machines and "Trustworthy" OSs...
You can't take the sky from me...
Bill Gate$ has likely already made a $1 million dollar contribution to some republican PAC somewhere to make sure that Microsoft is all they get in Iraq. The distributor probably will be Hallburton!
Yes -- a stable, O/S government preferrably.
Though, as North Americans, we probably can't help them with that.
Iraq is not a free country. It is owned and operated by PNAC, under the auspices of the Bush Administration, which is in turn owned and operated by a number of large corporations and wealthy individuals.
Microsoft being one of the largest contributors, expect Windows Everywhere. It isn't just a coincidence that Windows is on the "allowed to export" list and Linux isn't.
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Ahem,
The Phillipines?
'There is a Light that never goes out.'