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

[R. Wood]

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Allegedly, on Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:09:10AM -0500, Scott Blayney stated:
> 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

I think your paranoid spin is entirely plausible  :-)

(They don't call it 'RedHat' for nothing you know ;-)

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