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Linux Advocacy in Ethiopia: A Traveller's Journal
Jutta Horstmann writes "At the Horn of Africa, little is known about Open Source. To change this, Jan Muehlig and Jutta Horstmann (relevantive AG, authors of last year's Linux Usability Report) set out to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Read their traveller's journal and get more information on Linux and Open Source in Ethiopia at relevantive.de/ethiopia." Their travel report is the most interesting section.
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Not one! But many! Bwahahahahaha!
If you want to make your own!
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<several minutes of dancing>
<drums and pole beating>
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<slaughter a chicken>
<more dancing around the fire>
clck clk stst stt click grunt.
<falls down and passes out from exhaustion>
cc: Medicine Man
A show-off
The Christians have been trying to convert Ethiopians for decades now... how is this Linux conversion going to happen so quickly?
I expect a lot of "Ethiopian money scams" in the near future.
Help, I've got an Ethiopian linux bigot up my ass!
You have got to be kidding me... I do not want to troll but come on, Linux in Ethiopia? I don't think the Ethiopians care since 99% has bigger problems like having enough to eat!
The starve.
Seriously, these people couldn not give a shit about Free. Unless it's Free as in Free food.
What about food, water, clothing and plumbing?
I guess they could setup a web server with ethiopian cam whores. Does amazon allow you to put food in your wishlist?
"Mom, we found a starvin' Ethernopian. Can we keep him?"
while true ; do echo this is my sig; done
Sorry, have to post AC, mods here would not leave this alone.
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WHAT IS 3:3:4?
=> THE MEASUREMENTS OF MISS ETHEOPIA
WHAT DOES AN ETHEOPIAN DO WITH A BAG
OF RICE? => OPEN A RESTAURANT
WHAT DO YOU CALL AN ETHEOPIAN WITH A
DOG? => A VEGETARIAN
WHAT DO YOU CALL AN ETHEOPIAN WITH
TWO DOGS? => A RANCHER
WHAT DO YOU CALL AN ETHEOPIAN WITH
THREE DOGS? => A CATERER
HOW MANY ETHEOPIANS CAN YOU FIT IN A
PHONE BOOTH? => ALL OF THEM
HOW MANY ETHEOPIANS CAN YOU FIT IN A SHOWER?
=> NONE, THEY ALL SLIP DOWN THE DRAIN
DIDJA HEAR ABOUT THE ETHEOPIAN WHO
WAS AT THE ZOO AND FELL INTO THE ALLIGATOR PIT?
=> HE ATE THREE OF THEM BEFORE THE ZOO OFFICIALS
COULD PULL HIM OUT
WHAT DO YOU CALL AN ETHEOPIAN WITH A
PENNY ON HIS HEAD? => A NAIL
WHAT DO ETHEOPIANS DO AT NIGHT?
=> THEY STARVE
WHAT DO ETHEOPIANS USE VANICIAN
BLINDS FOR?
=> BUNK BEDS
WHAT DO YOU CALL AN ETHEOPIAN WITH A
SESAME SEAD BUN ON HIS HEAD?
=> A QUARTER POUNDER
WHAT DO ETHEOPIANS DO AT NIGHT?
=> THEY MAKE TV COMMERCIALS
WHAT IS THE FASTEST ANIMAL IN THE
WORLD?
=> ANYTHING WHEN IT'S PASSING THROUGH ETHEOPIA
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE ETHEOPIAN
PIRATE WHO GOT THE FIRST RELEASE OF
ULTIMA IV?
=> HE ATE IT
WHY DON'T ETHEOPIANS LIKE ORAL SEX?
=> THEY JUST CANT BRING THEMSELVES
PASSING THROUGH ETHEOPIA
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE ETHEOPIAN
PIRATE WHO GOT THE FIRST RELEASE OF
ULTIMA
IV? => HE ATE IT
WHY DON'T ETHEOPIANS LIKE ORAL SEX?
=> THEY JUST CANT BRING THEMSELVES
TO SAY EAT ME! EAT ME!
WHAT DO YOU CALL A 65 POUND
ETHEOPIAN? => A CANNIBAL
uhrrr damn lameness filter, now i have to come up with some stupid crap to write here to increase the characters per line count and...[checks if enought already]..has more lowercase characters. still not enought i guess so now i'd just paste some random shit here..no wait have to say that this filter sucks, i'm not trying to troll, browse at -1 and you'll see, but it prevents a lot of normal posts from being posted. ok now: Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 21.6). This week, advisories were released for apache, the Linux kernel, mysql, xonix, ssmtp, openoffice, squid, cvs, Heimdal, iproute, pwlib, scorched, tcpdump, cadaver, and mailman. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Ge Continuing the latest weekly tradition of offering up the latest news, hints and tips from various open source mailing lists. Various tidbits include Linux 2.4 turning ".26", a bundle of major GNOME releases, and more tips for GNOME and Mozilla users
open source to ethiopia? this has to be one of the DUMBEST articles i've ever seen on this site. truly fucking lame. i think OSS is not much of a priority when you've got things like food and shelter to worry about.