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Re: [News] Sue Bullymer Goes Lobbying in Vietnam (Amid Migration to/Promotion of Vubuntu Linux)

  • Subject: Re: [News] Sue Bullymer Goes Lobbying in Vietnam (Amid Migration to/Promotion of Vubuntu Linux)
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 12:50:29 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <2024539.eGDJ74k5rC@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Microsoft CEO Visits Vietnam
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer witnessed the signing of an agreement
> | Monday requiring all of Vietnam's government offices to use licensed
> | computer software in a step to curb rampant piracy.
> `----
> 
> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070521/vietnam_microsoft_anti_piracy.html?.v=2
> 
> Leave them alone, Sweaty. The state promotes its Ubuntu GNU/Linux derivative,
> not rubbishware.

What the hell makes that goon think he has the right to tell foreign
governments what to do? Christ! He'll be running for *office* next. And
what kind of government would allow themselves to be dictated to by a
glorified sales rep?

> Gates did the same in Colombia recently. The country was going to move
> to GNU/Linux, just like the rest of Latin America.

[...]

> Gates promotes PC training in Colombia
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The government and Microsoft also two signed agreements Monday
> | stressing Uribe's strong commitment to Microsoft products at a
> | time other countries in the region are promoting the non-proprietary
> | Linux operating system.
> `----
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070319/ap_on_hi_te/colombia_bill_gates

Link's broken, try this one:

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/linux-software/56417.html

Well who'da thunk it, the Columbian government is corruptible! I wonder
whether Pearly G. bribed Uribe with cash or coke?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| The need for fulfilment that drives people to design and code  free
| software is not always economic in nature, and so falls outside any
| economic model.  As communism  and  capitalism  are  both  economic
| models,  they cannot be applied to free  software  developers,  any
| more than they can be applied to an avid gardener,  or someone  who
| writes poetry and hides it away in their desk.
|
| - http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/the_curse_of_capitalism
`----

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