On Sep 30, 6:10 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Cuba's Move Toward Freedom, as in Software
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> | In May 2005, the head of the Office for Computerizing Cuban Society, Roberto
> | del Puerto, announced that the government was preparing for its central
> | administration offices to switch to the free GNU/Linux system, which uses the
> | Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds of Finland in 1991. A national group
> | was formed for this purpose.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59545.html
>
Amazingly, they seem to back up my point that it's the People, not the
"Cathedral" that is supporting these monopolies:
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"There's still a great deal of resistance to the change," acknowledged
Yudivin Almeida, a professor in the mathematics and computer science
department at the University of Havana. In his view, Cubans are
impervious to the argument that free software costs nothing because
the U.S. embargo on the island means it is obliged to ignore license
fees anyway."
</q>
I mean, if a Communist Dictatorship can't get it's people to use
Linux....sheeesh...what hope is there for humanity !?!?
Maybe we should concentrate less on building better software until we
get the genetics engineers to build us better brains.
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