Comments on: Those Dumb South Africans

By: Boycott Novell » Microsoft Insults the Intelligence of Malaysians, Choice of ODF

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:02:29 +0000

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By: Linux News from Linux Loop » Blog Archive » And South Africans Are Going to Contribute To Windows?

Sat, 24 May 2008 03:02:26 +0000

[...] Jason Matusow, a Microsoft employee, made the comment that “Deep dev of the core OS is not likely to happen in South Africa today on any large scale. [...]

By: pogson

pogson — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:08:39 +0000

“OK, I can agree with the idea that technology mandates aren’t a bright idea.”

A government’s job is to organize the country to serve the needs of the country as best they can. When they see billions leaving the country and locals not being hired to code for M$ in the country, it is not hard to see that FLOSS and GNU/Linux could stimulate the economy and put people to work. It is easy to see that M$’s history of insecurity, low interoperability, and illegal trade practices is enough to have them banned. Fining them does no good.

Some migrations pay back quickly. Others take a couple of years. I have no idea about South Africa. The South Africans may.