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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. Obviously by Scrameustache · · Score: 2, Troll

    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...

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