Researching Open Source

philippInAfrica writes "bridges.org just released the software comparison study that looks at free/open source software and proprietary software in community computer labs in Africa. The announcement is on bridges, or you can download the full report in PDF form. To our knowledge, this is the largest field study of its kind in developing countries - we visited 121 computer labs in Namibia, Uganda and South Africa - and we are making all data available to other researchers. Feedback from the international ./ community would be great."

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Re:Someone doesn't know what they're talking about

[lkcl]

look me up, dude :)

"lkcl samba" on google.com provides sixteen THOUSAND hits.

teehee :)

i'm _famous_ for causing trouble, dude *ROTFL*.

i even had the samba team making a fascist censorship decision to classify any posts i make to samba.org as "net abuse".

that takes some doing - especially as i was working up to donating the copyright of all my samba-related code.

you want to talk about ignorance and ego?

how about the samba team being sufficiently willing to be egoistical and to remain ignorant by cutting off opinions of people that privately they agree with but are so arrogant that they cannot publicly admit that that person might be right?

i advise you to read the following reference:

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/2 8/2058251&tid=146&tid=14