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Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-people's-OS dept.

willclem writes "According to Reuters, it seems that Cuba has launched its own variation of Linux in order to fulfill its government's desire to replace Microsoft operating systems. 'Getting greater control over the informatic process is an important issue,' said Communications Minister Ramiro Valdes, who heads a commission pushing Cuba's migration to free software."

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  1. I can hear the cries now... by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Godless communists.

    Seriously though, how can software be free when the people aren't?

    LK

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  2. Its! Its! Not it's! by DaveBarr · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If only we could invent a version of Linux that had a spellchecker which would shoot the user in the head for not one but two typos of "it's". Jesus Christ folks, YOU CAN'T EVEN FUCKING CUT AND PASTE THE CORRECT SPELLING FROM THE ORIGINAL FUCKING ARTICLE!?

  3. Called Nova! by Chrisq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's called Nova! Isn't that Spanish for "doesn't work"

  4. Re:How did microsoft get around the embargo? by BitZtream · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Really, if you pay closer attention, it Palestine would stop attacking Israel it would be over.

    Everything happens after a Palestinian attack.
    1) Palestine attacks
    2) Israel responds, possible few weeks of battle, tanks rolling over kids throwing rocks and such
    3) UN 'works out a cease fire'
    4) Israel says OK, but we want more buffer zone since they can obviously not be trusted, THEY broke the last cease fire!
    5) A month of peace while Palestine regroups its resources to try again

    I don't really know which side is 'right' or 'wrong' as this really is a war from biblical times and it doesn't REALLY matter any more. I can say that the Palestinians don't deserve to win. They have the absolute worst strategy I have ever seen. They don't even have the presence of mind to wait, gather forces and let someone else start fighting with Israel and attack at the same time.

    We need to stop with this mentality that everything on the Earth deserves to live. It doesn't. Evolution is far better at making these choices than we are, stop trying to protect people who are too stupid to protect themselves. If you let Israel wipe out Gaza and kill everyone on it tomorrow, you're going to have less suffering than letting this retarded conflict carry on for another 50 years and indoctrinate another couple of generations into a lifetime of nothing but fighting.

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