Yahoo! News Story - Cuba embraces open-source software - Yahoo! News

[Laurie Bell]

I find that people not of an American mindset tend to accept more,and tolerate more.That's just my opinion.

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From: Scott Blayney <scottblayney at gmail.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:09:10 AM
Subject: Re: Yahoo! News Story - Cuba embraces open-source software - Yahoo! News

The story shows some hope for the people of Cuba.  But I worry that MS is trying to take a new approach at fighting Linux.  MS has labelled Linux as communism 

before.  Having communist Cuba adopt Linux isn't really going to endear it to the American people.  Maybe this is why they are running the story?  Just read how the story opens, "Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least
one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp. — by joining with socialist
Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software."

Sounds like they're trying to turn a good technical choice into a decision to join the Communist Party, at least in the minds of those who don't know the real issues.  One more reason not to adopt Linux?  Am I just being paranoid?


Scott

On 17 Feb 2007 05:03:59 -0800, Laurie Bell <
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Very Interesting.

Cuba embraces open-source software - Yahoo! News


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_hi_te/cuba_software


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