Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:31:27 -0800 From: Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries Message-ID: <200603091931.27415.satyam@sklinks.com> In-Reply-To: <200603100211.k2A2BmwQ022377@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308211347.02261468@broadpark.no> <96341e070603091803l111d1b10ie16d5ddc50aca89@mail.gmail.com> <200603100211.k2A2BmwQ022377@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On Thursday 09 March 2006 18:11, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Sorry Nicole, but here in Brazil our government does not use pirated > > software, and yes, they're changing to Open Source. > > That only means Brazil is not much a 3rd world country anymore... > > > guess this may be coming to an end, or not expanding, since the new > > "cheap" computer for the poor people comes with Free Software. > > Yeah, sure, government did the same here in Thailand, cheap PC at $250 > with Linux, and every body did installed Windows on it as soon as they > get home :) Because Free Software was simply not working and that was > not what they used at school, in the internet cafe and such, there > were not the latest and coolest games... > > Olivier > _______________________________________________ I've read several accounts of third world governments and schools adopting open source. I've also noticed a decent showing of people from third world countries on OSS forums and websites. I believe there is a rising tide of third world interest and programming resources that are going to end up making a significant contribution to open source.
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