Ubuntu & Africa

[Pay Wahun]

I just came from visiting West African states of Sierra Leone, Liberia,
Gambia and Ghana & Nigeria. I came across few friends whom I advised to take
a look at Ubuntu but after displaying Ubuntu and analyzing reasons why they
should consider it, they in turn advice me to considering windows. Their
reasons are; they are heavily into Windows and that Windows doesn't cost
them anything. They conclude that Ubuntu and Open Source would cost them
time to learn why Windows wouldn't.  Also, any windows product can be found
in the market for less than $6.0. Yes! I saw vendors selling Vista, and
current versions of  Adobe flash 8, Dream weaver, Acrobat writer, Photoshop,
XP office, dream weaver, Quick books, Goldmine, Peachtree Accounting,
AutoCad - you name it - any three software for less than $6 without any
activation problem. According to them open source can not succeed there and
they would change the way Microsoft do business by providing them their
products for free as they are now providing them Internet Explorer. I'm
scheduled to visit that region again in April 2007 and was wondering how,
why and what could I do to convince them to consider open source in place
face of their pirate products. Any ideas could be helpful.
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