I dont believe how redundant some of you are. After living in South Africa for my entire life, I am proud to be South African.
South Africa, is far more ahead of the time and technology than some of you think. We aren't as sophisticated as any of the first world countries, but coming from a second world country, I think, we have come a loooong way.
Opensourceness in South Africa has also come a long way. In my province (KwaZulu Natal) some of the schools are switching to Linux and ridding them selves of M$ Windos. Even though M$ has offered low-cost licences and other packages, some of us are not blinded by this.
Please think of South Africa, not as a 3rd World country that has suffered and is in the process of developing, but as a country that has grown and has developed into a new era of technology, some even better than first world countries could. Take Mark Shuttleworth for example, he started Thawte, an internet based company that sparked most new encryption technology over the internet. His company was bought by Verisign for $400m.
They're quite clever, but not that clever, we (the *nix) community are obviously going to hack whatever they throw at us... There's no point in even trying to do all these copy protection schemes... *sigh* When will they learn? Lol, They're obviously M$ Windoze (l)users...:-)
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I dont believe how redundant some of you are. After living in South Africa for my entire life, I am proud to be South African.
South Africa, is far more ahead of the time and technology than some of you think. We aren't as sophisticated as any of the first world countries, but coming from a second world country, I think, we have come a loooong way.
Opensourceness in South Africa has also come a long way. In my province (KwaZulu Natal) some of the schools are switching to Linux and ridding them selves of M$ Windos. Even though M$ has offered low-cost licences and other packages, some of us are not blinded by this.
Please think of South Africa, not as a 3rd World country that has suffered and is in the process of developing, but as a country that has grown and has developed into a new era of technology, some even better than first world countries could. Take Mark Shuttleworth for example, he started Thawte, an internet based company that sparked most new encryption technology over the internet. His company was bought by Verisign for $400m.
South Africa is kewler than you think.
They're quite clever, but not that clever, we (the *nix) community are obviously going to hack whatever they throw at us... There's no point in even trying to do all these copy protection schemes... *sigh* When will they learn? Lol, They're obviously M$ Windoze (l)users... :-)