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Egyptian Government To Adopt Free Software On Larger Scale
ezabi writes "After announcing a 43 million USD license agreement with Microsoft, the Egyptian government was faced with a protest from FOSS enthusiasts staging a protest before the cabinet. Later, representatives from the community had a meeting with the minister of communications and information technology. Such a meeting led to the ministry issuing a press release (in Arabic) stating its commitment to gradually move to open source (Google Translate to English) as a strategic option for future projects. It's worth mentioning that all governmental websites used in the elections and constitution referendum were all based on open source solutions."
I've been to Egypt and Pakistan multiple times you liberal fucktard. If you said something negative about Muhammad in public they'd have no problem beating you to death in the middle of the street with the full support of the local police. They also have an absolutely atrocious human rights record and have no problems with men beating the shit out of women for things that are absolutely trivial. The difference between the highly populated areas of Pakistan and Egypt is negligible at best.
But you keep racing to defend them as you sip on a caffè latte in Starbucks on your Macbook listening to indie bands us uneducated plebs have never heard of... Maybe you can make a blog post about it later.