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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?
I think Cuba does a good job of proving that communism doesn't work on its own.
Fuck it
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.
The information you cite is from the anti-Castro loby in the USA , This is not the truth of the matter . The anti-Castro loby is mainly filled with Gangsters and terrorists who thrived under Batistas reign.
Try looking for more than one source of info first , Cuba has had a better human rights record than the USA since the late 70s.
As a canadian, you are full of sh!t...ROYALLY!
I've been there, people are FUCKING DYING, you tard.
Oh, I'm sure you had a nice vacation on the resort drinking yourself into obivion.
Try talking to the average cuban, and see what he thinks of it. I have(ex's cuban relatives,others), and it's what you'd expect from a communist country...misery, poverty, and a HUGE desire to flee.
OH WAIT! I forgot, you watch our state-run(commie) TV,CBC...so naturally everything is the badbad amerikkans fault, right?
Go back to your govt job, commie
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 obviously an American, only a douchebag, white, I feel so guilty for what I have so I am anti anything that got me to this point American would be so self-loathing as to post a moronic statement like that. (by this I mean, capitalism, banking orgainizations anything connected to anything that america has done not by another self hating liberal whitey or some non "uncle tom minority" ) I love it how people say the same thing about Americans traveling abroud. I have traveled abroard and you act like americans have cornered the market on ignorance. well they haven't in fact you people love to point out how the rest of the world is so informed. well ignorance of their own countries is just as prevelant as ignorance within our country. In fact there are many parts of the world that know more about America than the country they live in ( this is always true with a dominating culture. I.E. Romans, then mongols then english ) of course this will change. in 75 years the chinese will dominate. then douchebags like yourself will say the same thing about the dominate culture and /. account, but I KNOW you posted under the AC because if not we would know your true origins. so how is the weather either in Massachusetts or California )
brag about how tiawanese beaches are so nice because there are no Chinese. YOU MAKE ME SICK. I bet you also consider yourself an open minded person as well. Self Hatred is a pathetic quality. ( I do not have a
Wow that is remarkably myopic. You might want to watch how you throw around absolutes like that. Democratic does not always mean good or just. Open any history book for an example of that.
True. I was going to say "democratic and capitalistic" (in Ayn Rand sense), but I didn't really want to get into that discussion.
I figured people would at least see that even though democracies can turn bad *some* of the time (it is conceivable, though highly unprobable, that a country like, say, Canada could vote another Hitler in); totalitarian/dictatorship/communist turn bad *all* the time.
There is not one communist/dictatorial country in existence that provides the kind of freedoms that most democracies do.
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.