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Cuba Switching to Linux
Tony Montana writes "According to several news sites the government of Cuba is dumping Windows in favour of Linux. Cuba's director of information technology, Roberto del Puerto, says that Cuba already has approximately 1500 computers running on Linux, and is working towards replacing Windows on all state owned computers."
Do we really want to site Cuba as a testament to OSS?
DX9? 2 letters and 1 digit that sums up somewhat 90% of what Windows users use and can't do without. Games.
Actually, we can't do without a functioning OS and critical business applications, which is why Linux is not an option for us.
I don't respond to AC's.
No it does a good job of showing how well it can work , even under presure from
The USA and its abuse of international law.
It has a better health care system than the USA , higher literacy rates and lower infant mortality.
Your fed the lies by your gouvernments propaganda.Cuba would be far better off if you didn't impose threats on countrys who wish to trade with it (Such as cutting off aid in the case of developing nations)
I think the U.S. does a good job of proving that bipartizan capitalist democracies are quickly overthrown by corporate influence of politicial parties.
Except you can't walk around the ruins in say, kingston, jamaica because you will be robbed and likely shot. You know in Jamaica the police have actually taken poor people away from the resorts and dumped them off in the middle of nowhere to keep them away from the tourists? This stuff happens whereever there are resorts. Its just that cuba is safe enough that you can walk into the poorest areas and walk out alive.
Those ruins you see in Havana? News Flash, dude, thats how 90% of the world lives. And they will continue to live that way so that you can have a nice little home in suburbia, drive your SUV to work every day, and be able to afford a vacation every year where you can be shocked by how poor some people are, before flying back to your nice affluent suburb.
Importing food from Canada and Europe to Cuba costs about 30% more. For comparison, since the US increased the embargo on Cuba in 1992, food intake has decereased by 38%. Coincidence?
Freeze Ray. Tell your friends.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
You seem to have forgotten that the Cuban government illegally seized millions of dollars of American-owned property in 1959. As far as I'm concerned, the Cuban government can write us a check for the value of this property, plus 46 years of interest. Until it does, the embargo stands.
You are making a very serious charge. Do you have evidence that American troops line up prisoners at Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib and summarily execute them? I am sure that I would have heard about this before, and I did a quick look at Wikipedia at the abuse sections and they did not mention executions.
You are using a cute rhetorical device. Please back it up with facts.
Haha does it matter about us giving military equipment to Saddam? We rolled over him anyways!
Mention Communism in a sentence somewhere. You get extra points if you make a positive factual comparison of Cuba and the USA on things like medical care and literacy, leaving the others blurting words like freedom, democracy and human rights. If you then mention Guantanamo and legal rights of people imprisoned there, you win the jackpot.