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South African Minister Locks Horns With Microsoft
naheiw writes "The South African minister of public service and administration on Monday addressed the opening of the Idlelo 3 free software conference in Dakar, Senegal, saying that software patents posed a considerable threat to the growth of the African software sector (video). Microsoft responded aggressively, saying that 'there is no such thing as free software. Nobody develops software for charity.'"
Never trust a nigger with your property, especially your intellectual property.
won'>t be standing series of debates marketing surveys
You're not very smart are you? Blah blah yoke blah oppressor blah foreign white devils blah blah.
Please stop posting, reading what you wrote made me physically ill.
Fuck you, Africa. I'm fed up with my taxes being used so that government aid can bail you out of your own mistakes.
50 years ago, the cry was for independence - you were mature enough to run your own countries, you could manage democracy, imperialism had only set you back. What happened in nearly every country within 10 years? Genocide, civil war, dictatorship and famine. One man, one vote, once.
"But wait" cries the liberal, "Africa is only in the state it's in because of Western Imperialism. 100 years of occupation ruined these countries." Liberals, I'd like to make a comparison here. We're going to look at 2 countries. One is Ethiopia, one is Poland. Ethiopia has, in the past 300 years, been under foreign rule for 5 years. Poland, by contrast, has been independent for less than 50 of those 300 years, alternating between the German and the Russian jackboot. So, as Africa's problems are solely due to evil imperialism, let's make some predictions here - Poland will have lower GDP, lower life expectancy, lower literacy and less political stability. Right? Well, wrong. On every single metric, Poland scores higher than any country in Africa. So does Iceland, Ireland and Hungary. Hell, so does Israel, and if anyone's been persecuted and oppressed it's the Jews. I don't see them trying to claim reparations off Egypt.
So what, then, is the problem with Africa? Well, the problem with Africa is basically that it's full of blacks, who are, Albanians and Turks aside, the most worthless specimens of existence ever to have crawled out of the primal soup. Blacks have never contributed anything of value to humanity, and short of revolutionary new methods of fossil fuel generation, probably never will. "But wait again" cries the plaintive liberal voice, "What about peanut butter?". What about peanut butter? Europe can claim Mozart, Newton, Galileo, Plato, Locke. The list is endless, a non stop parade of Western achievement and progress. China can claim a legacy of civilization going back to the time when Stephen Hawking's ancestors were bushwhacking Roman legions in the Black Forest. The Arabs have their chemists, the Jews their philosophers, the Persians their poets. The blacks have a sandwich filling.
"But wait" our muesli molester cries, almost daring to mouth the dread accusation of racism that should silence all dissent "it's all environmental. African underachievement is a result of living in poor countries." If this were the case, blacks should prosper when they sneak into the West under false claims of asylum, surely? Except they don't. In every country, blacks have higher unemployment, higher crime, higher poverty and lower educational achievement. There isn't a black majority area in the world that compares favourably with it's counterparts. Instead, we're forced to put up with all the problems they bring as our cities and nations become dumping grounds into which the sewers of the third world can flow.
Fuck you, Africa. You're the problem, and the only aid that will help you is a vasectomy.
problem; a few recent a0Rticle put 40,000 workstations
luvy duvy stuff aside, software doesn't appear out of thin air, it gets financed somehow. "Free software" simply removes a lot of the direct financial incentive to develop that software, which forces developers to look to other business models.
It's almost like some people have a 35 year old grudge against bill gates and are forever doomed to reject the idea of monetizing software development.