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More On The Open Sourcing Of Iraq
popdookey writes "
The BBC's broadcast, The World,
has run a piece on the growing Linux movement in Iraq as was previously reported
here on Slashdot. 'In Iraq, a group of
computer users has started writing open source
computer code. They're Linux enthusiasts. The idea is to make low-cost,
home-grown software and is said to hold great promise for developing
countries. It could leapfrog Iraq into a more competitive future. The
World technology reporter Clark Boyd reports.'"
While Bill sends in his troops, we can only hope they wear "US Microsoft Employees" on their shirts. This would be a guaranteed method of taking the heat off of the US military troops.
No, but it was just one more reason.
Seventeen UN resolutions (of which ANY member could enforce), constant AAA fire on coalition aircraft in no-fly zones, unwillingness to destroy or show records of destruction of WMD's (which are well documented, and are beginnning to be discovered), hostility towards neighboring countries (Iran, Kuwait, Israel), harboring known terrorists (Abu Nidal, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, Abdul Rahman Yasin), sponsoring Palestinian suicide terrorist's families in neighboring countries, and I'm sure there's more. And thats not even counting numerous human-rights atrocities committed against the Iraqi people.
The man was rightly deposed by the international community (sans France, Germany, and Russia -- whom we discover later had lucrative, possible illegal, contracts with Iraq).
So with all that, I ask: Would you prefer Saddam was back in power?
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"which are well documented, and are beginnning to be discovered"
/.'ers!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Now THIS guy is a complete fucking moron!
Here we see the corrosive influence of Fox News on
Not ONE fucking WMD has been found in Iraq! Not ONE!
Period!
You complete and utter idiot!!
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
So we're supposed to believe linux's video codec support is better than windows'? You've never heard of directshow filters, have you? Windows dynamically selects the most appropriate filters to render the video/audio/subtitles/whatever. You have complete control over these filters, by the way. If you want to convert an MP3 to a wav file, you can drag'n'drop these filters in the right order, and it'll convert the format for you. It even gets new codecs off the net automatically. Windows provides that functionality to any application that asks for it. That's right - one single, solid way of processing multimedia in your computer. Not tens of individual packages and bits of software loosely tied together to work. If you're going to bitch about windows, at least pick an area it doesn't trounce Linux on. sheesh.