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Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

I have an uncle, who owned his own business's. I found his business tactics to be rather greedy and cut-throat. But over the years, he became more involved in Buddhism and has given rather large portions of his money to family members, temples and to charity. Some people do evolve for the better; I can't say if that is the case for Bill, cause I don't know him well enough, but I like to think so.

Btw, The last post was very funny.

disciple · Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 06:39 Post subject:

backi · Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 357 Location: GERMANY

I´ m not quite shure where to post this information. So I do it here.

Today I have seen in DISTROWATCH some comments about economic crisis and if this maybe will give Linux in future some advantage over MS Windows.
Please read for your own.

There was a comment from a guy " Linux in Africa (by Atle on 2011-08-01 10:37:23 GMT from France)" which I like to cite here.

3 • Linux in Africa (by Atle on 2011-08-01 10:37:23 GMT from France)

"Dear readers. After spending more than 2 years in various African countries, I can for sure tell you why it does not succeed. Its as simple or stupid as this:

There is no money to collect. Nothing to be stolen. No government kickbacks, no 10% percent commission to the government people. So the public sector, as well as the private, will only deal with MS, that has off course specialized into offering the 10 or 20 percent commission on all sales. Microsoft main sales partner in Tanzania was awarded something like “Partner of the Year” by MS, in 2010.

The only ones that uses Linux are a very limited number of individuals and some University’s. To put it into perspective, I once meet a young guy that came to a place to teach in a private school, and he was shocked seeing there is a “internet”. He never heard about it before.

As the above article states, MS has purposely made it easy to copy and steal their products. There is no doubt about that.

I have yet failed to see one school, one single internet cafe, that had license for their MS products. I have a copy of a ridiculous “campaign”, MS had in Tanzania in 2010 and I hope to scan it and send it to the author of the article, that was very well written.

MS is partnering up with the World Bank, with all kind of projects, while the Linux distro’s, are hard to even find. And for sure they can not afford to download this and that as 95% of internet usage is pay pr MB”, using mobile internet.

The only solution for Africa and other third world countries, is to focus on education. Get in at the educational level, and even bypass the whole school and government systems. Education is rotten to its roots, with low end teachers, ability to by good grades, papers and corruption.

So there is the chance, as Africa has to become a society, whereas school papers will count less and less and what you can actually do, will be the key to work.
Get into their first experience, trough focusing on USB key
Get into their first experience, trough focusing on USB key computing, as most Africans can hardly buy a burnable CD.

As I see it, Puppy Linux Lupu is the absolute most “Third World Friendly” OS, followed by Slitaz Live DVD".

I beg you all please! spread this message everywhere.

I wish you a nice day! brothers and sisters!