Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Microsoft CEO Visits Vietnam
>
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> | 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.
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> 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
>
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> | 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.
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>
> 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
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| 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.
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| - http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/the_curse_of_capitalism
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