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Re: [News] Another State Dumps Microsoft for Free Software, ODF

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:11:36 -0400, DFS wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:14:00 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> The State of Kedah moves to OpenOffice.org
> 
> 
> 
>> Fantastic!!!
>> And maybe in a couple of years they will have indoor plumbing and
>> running water.
> 
> Linux: 3rd-rate crapware for the 3rd-world


I, for one, would love to see the third world bypass industrialization 
and fast forward to where the US is at with a "service" economy.  It's a 
waste of human capital to have them, essentially, sitting on their hands 
instead, say, inventing the next DRM ;)

When the Berlin wall fell, some former east bloc countries went from 
crummy phone service and jumped to cell phones and the internet.  India 
also is undergoing a revolution just by having reliable (cell) phones.

If they choose to eschew US IP, like windows, oh well, it's a loss for 
the US but a gain for the world.


-Thufir

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