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Essay: Perspectives of African FOSS developers
philipp_at_bridges_dot_org writes "Bridges.org has just released an essay about FOSS issues in Africa, Straight from the Source: Perspectives from the African Free and Open Source Software Movement. It highlights a perspective that is often overlooked in the discussion of how FOSS can benefit developing countries: that of software developers themselves. The essay describes the conditions African FOSS developers work in and the difficulties they face, mostly letting quotes and personal impressions speak for themselves. The issues are very different from what I am reading in the typical slashdot discussions. It maybe an interesting perspective for your audience to see what others, who share the believe in freedom of source code are struggling with - hopefully to encourage thinking around solutions for these problems."
"They don't ask if you can program. They ask, 'do you know (Microsoft) Visual Basic?'"
Good to see they differentiate between the two there as well.
Man 1: What do you do?
Man 2: I'm a FOSS developer
Man 1: Yeh... that, um, well... great.
Man 2: Got any spare change?
I feel African already.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
"I hope someone discovers oil in Zimbabwe, so the cretin Dubya and his puppet Tony B. Liar have an excuse to rid the world of him, preferably with a single bullet, without involving the country in a war"
God it feels so good to see that people actually think GWB is a cretin !
All this proves is that you don't actually know anyone who studied CS in college. That's understandable, I didn't know any when I was 13 either.
...wearing a skin-tight topless leather jumpsuit, with cutaway buttocks and transparent crotch panel.