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Yes, there is a Linux Users Group in Iraq. When it was first mentioned on Slashdot it only had two members. It's grown a little since then, as has The Iraqi Linux Group Portal. Adam Davidson, an American reporter in Baghdad who helped start the group, has agreed to answer your questions about Linux in Iraq. Please post only one question per comment. We'll email Adam 10 of the highest-moderated questions, and post his answers verbatim (except for HTML formatting) when he gets them back to us.
By the tone of this post, I'd day say you're an "US vz. THEM" guy. I almost hope you're trolling, but if not:
It's not wise to put strong encryption capabilities in the hands of any Islamic nation.
Ok ... (awkward silence ensues). Let's also be sure not to trust countries who pass laws that allow the government to detain individuals for no reason based on their ethnicity and general paranoia. Let's also take cryptography away from those countries whose leader's mislead the general public about WMD, to partake in an inhumane war. Oh yeah, don't forget those countries who are afraid of an international tribunal, because all of its military officials have broken the Geneva Accords 10x over...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/slee per/
I think they're using the Anthrax, Sarin, and WMD distributions. Of course, those really don't exist in great numbers, and were only programs they told Saddam about to get funding.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. I lost my
job this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and
prosperous, but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We
simply could not compete with foreign labor. This foreign labor worked
for low pay under very bad conditions. They worked very long shifts,
and many even died on the job. This competition could hardly be called
"fair." I was forced out of the place where I had worked for 34 years.
Not a single government program was there to help me. How can Bush
call himself "compassionate?" Far worse, I lost two of my sons in
Bush's evil war in Iraq. They gave their lives for their country, and
for what? So that Bush's oil buddies can get rich. My pain of losing
my sons is indescribable. While it is trivial next to the loss of my
sons, I regret to say that I also lost my home. I simply have nothing
left. How can Bush call himself a Christian when he neglects people
like me? I am a senior citizen with various medical problems. I'm not
in a position where I can begin a new career. I was reduced to the
point where I had to live in a hole in a ground, all because of
President Bush. And when the authorities found me there, did they have
any compassion for my misfortune and ailments? No, I was arrested. Mr.
Bush, I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you are a
compassionate man! I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you
are a Christian! If I had any money left, I would donate it to the
Democrat Party. If Al Gore had been elected in 2000 I would still have
a job, a home, and most importantly, my dear sons!
Sincerely,
Saddam Hussein
bush
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GET SOME PRIORITIES PEOPLE! Iraq has just sufferred the most demoralizing invasion of Westerners in a decade! They are out in the street starving and looking for work! And here we are talking about what distrobution of Linux they use?!?! GET SOME PRIORITIES!
and why, praytell, was there a revolution in iran and a new anti-us regime? perhaps because the united states orchestrated the overthrow of mossadegh - the democratically elected leader of iran - and replaced him with the shah, a brutal dictator and u.s. puppet.
note to us administratoin: stop making beds if you don't want to lie down in them.
2 1337 4 u!