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Stallman Convinces Cuba to Switch to Open Source
prostoalex writes "It's a big victory for Richard Stallman in North America, as Cuba decided to adopt open source software on the national level. Both Cuba and Venezuela are currently working on switching the entire government infrastructure to GNU/Linux operating system and applications, the Associated Press reports from Havana: 'Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system, which is developed by a global community of programmers who freely share their code.' The AP article doesn't mention the distro used for government workers, but says that the students are working on a Gentoo-based distro."
In communist Cuba, Stallman switches you!
I wonder how RMS is going to spin this victory to his States-side detractors?
... Microsoft replaced 'My Computer' with 'Computer' and 'My Documents' with 'Documents' ... and Gates says it's open source that's communist?"
He could say, "Wait a minute
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
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Download it today, comrade!
Reminds me of the picture that says something along the lines of "When you pirate music you help communism."
Gosh, maybe Stallman is pitching GNU/Linux to Osama bin Laden in his cave right now, and we can bring the War on Terror into this.
Of course it is. Friend Computer would never consort with evil mutant commie traitors. To think otherwise would be the height of treason.
Oh, I didn't know the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba uses Linux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America/
Don't worry: we'll have it fixed in a jiffy!
The attitude of US adminstations to Cuba has been somewhat childish for a very long time. It was lost through a reaction to maladministration, organised crime and corruption and wasn't under US government control at the time anyway. It is another country now even if you had a war with Spain over it a long time ago - live with it and have cheaper cigars instead of smuggled ones that even end up in intimate places in the oval office.