it always make me cringe when even the most well meaning people, like the parent, come off as condescending pricks. I don't claim to speak for all Africans, but as a South African I would rather deal with the typical assholes who are out here to exploit what and who they can, than people who speak down at Africans and think that we need some sort of "saving"...
quite a few international call centers are based in South Africa...for example, Discovery Health (south africa's largest health insurance provider) hosts their Destiny (U.S. division of Discovery) call centres in South Africa too.
Most people here speak English fluently as well as two or three other languages.
And for the record I think food, medicine and communications are the most important things to any society. Internet access is just as important in the medium term as food is in the short. Take a look at the number of people with cellphones in south africa and you'll be surprised. The guy that washes my windscreen at traffic lights for a cigarette has a cellphone too.
hmmmm...as far I can tell from the article, he didn't operate anything within the U.S., unless the Internet is only within that country.... he did however crack software owned by U.S. companies.
He's richer than most, therefore more visible and vocal...
but OSS has long roots over here.
We're like Brazil, we "do" things in the open source scene that the rest of the world can only argue about/wish for on./
We're quite loyal too...most of my friends tried and switched to Ubuntu when it was released...
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there are at least 3 planned undersea cables that I know of...I think Eassy is probably the one furthest along.
Start there.
"As soon as we put up electrical lines the locals steal them"
God help us all.
Amen!
it always make me cringe when even the most well meaning people, like the parent, come off as condescending pricks.
I don't claim to speak for all Africans, but as a South African I would rather deal with the typical assholes who are out here to exploit what and who they can, than people who speak down at Africans and think that we need some sort of "saving"...
quite a few international call centers are based in South Africa...for example, Discovery Health (south africa's largest health insurance provider) hosts their Destiny (U.S. division of Discovery) call centres in South Africa too. Most people here speak English fluently as well as two or three other languages.
And for the record I think food, medicine and communications are the most important things to any society. Internet access is just as important in the medium term as food is in the short.
Take a look at the number of people with cellphones in south africa and you'll be surprised. The guy that washes my windscreen at traffic lights for a cigarette has a cellphone too.
hmmmm...as far I can tell from the article, he didn't operate anything within the U.S., unless the Internet is only within that country. ... he did however crack software owned by U.S. companies.
forget hanging you head in shame...start microwaving those disks, and dropping those hard-drives!
then how do large OSS projects get started? in the beginning the level of collaboration has to be high...but the amount of face-time still remains nil
And you left out Africa for what reason?...or do you think I'm typing this on an elephants back, with a monkey-to-monkey wifi network?
"anyone care to make a quick comparison of pro's and con's?" .
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Looks like you know as much as we do
or if you have a graphics card built in the last 3 years, with tv-out
He's richer than most, therefore more visible and vocal... but OSS has long roots over here. We're like Brazil, we "do" things in the open source scene that the rest of the world can only argue about/wish for on ./
We're quite loyal too...most of my friends tried and switched to Ubuntu when it was released...
He probably should've hosted it at 'undisclosed company'.com but I guees it would'nt be so 'undisclosed'