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

Scott Blayney scottblayney at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 14:09:10 UTC 2007


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<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/>.
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

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