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Open Source's Battle In Africa
eldavojohn writes "The BBC has more details about something we last discussed in 2008 — the showdown of open source versus proprietary software in Africa. When discussing the issue of cost, the piece quotes Microsoft's chairman on the scene, Dr. Cheikh Modibo Diarra, who alludes that open source continually costs you money by saying 'You buy Microsoft software, and you buy it once and for all, the cost that we tell you is the total cost for ownership.' On the other end of the story is Ken Banks from Kiwanja.net who has spent 15 years developing open source applications in Africa. His logic is that 'Today we're seeing growing open-source programmer, developer communities in South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and other African countries. Clearly, if you have this informal programming sector coming up, access to source code is almost critical if they are going to be able to take advantage of these new tools that are emerging.' Well, the battle rages on, hopefully the emerging African developers and users pick the tool(s) that suit their needs the best."
the fact that most computers in africa can't even run most proprietary software ? Let alone windows vista.
Although importing new netbooks is only a tiny little bit more expensive than sending used computers there.
Wow, is this the kind of bullshit that gets modded insightful on slashdot?
"So bloated, full of new DRM, in need of new video cards to handle the latest DirectX version..."
This isn't 2006, you're allowed to open your eyes and actually try the software you buy before bashing it. Vista isn't "bloated" and doesn't require a new machine to use it (Unless your machine is about 10 years old, in which case you should probably upgrade anyway). Benchmarks show it is faster than XP with SP1 installed.
Furthermore the DRM changes NOTHING. It only performs checks when you attempt to load DRM'd content and doesn't slow the OS down in any way otherwise. And guess what? It doesn't prevent you from seeing any current content at all, only content that you wouldn't have been able to watch on XP anyway.
People need to wake the fuck up.
Everyone also knows they don't need any because they have Ungabunga Linux that does everything for free.
Considering that pretty much every tool for unix exists on Windows, then I'd say that anything you learn on Ubuntu, Solaris, Linux, *BSD, SCO, HPUX and whatever other unix you care to use is going to be useful in windows as well to some extent.
System specifics won't be, but system specifics for SunOS4 aren't real useful to a SUSE user either.
Everything you claim as something a 'seasoned Windows admin' as amassed has the same sort of thing with a UNIX like OS. symlink hacks, /etc file edits, familiarity with utilities provided by someone other than the OS vendor to accomplish ordinary things, a mental list of workaround for things that never seem to work right, memories of old kernel options and hacks.
Nothing you've said is unique to Windows or UNIX, they are shared between both.
Being a fanboy really does make you look like a douchebag to anyone with a clue.
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Oh dear God! At first I though my eyes were failing me. At last, they were not.
It's should be scripted that if you use "LOL", you get moded -5 Lamer.
Seriously, you just said "Laugh Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud". How sad.
Life is not for the lazy.