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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."
Yeah, just go insult Allah or that child molester Moohammad and see how fast shit gets real. Freedom my ass.
A good majority of Muslims are savages, and that's promoted by Islam. The Egyptians you are thinking of are pre-Islamic ones, not the ones of today. Today's Egyptians are no different from Libyans, Syrians, Saudis and others. For the civil war in Syria or the lynchings in Libya, there were things like the rape on Lara Logan, demonstrating that Egypt is no more civilized than the rest of the Arab or Muslim world.
Non Westerners who are not Muslim are usually pretty civilized - see the Japanese, the Koreans, the Thai, the Vietnamese and so on. No Islamic influences there.