Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[Le grand pinguin]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:50:00PM +0200, Michel Clasquin wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 08:44 +0100, charley Ramm wrote:
> 
> > Im glad that Cuba are looking to Free and Open source software, but as
> > i understand it the main problem they face is that they dont have any
> > hardware. Because of their size they can't manufacture it. And because
> > of said sanctions, and presumably lack of money, they can't import it
> > either.
> 
> I once lived in a country supposedly under sanctions (South Africa in
> the 80s) and believe me, anything you wanted, you could get. 

Yes, indeed. I guess the bigger problem is money: South Africa had
lot's of money - and, unfortunately, with enough maoney there seems
to be little that you can't get. Also, even so SA was "supposedly" under
sanctions their relations with quite a substantial part of the "first"
world was astonishingly good - i doubt too much effort was put into
the control of these sanctions.
Unfortunatley Cuba isn't the world's most prosperous area these dasy ... ;-/

 RalfD

> In the
> computer world, South Africans got so used to buying no-brand beige
> boxes from mom 'n pop stores (mostly with Taiwanese parts), and
> installing their own (pirated) software, that ten years later the big
> brands like Dell and HP are still struggling to get a foothold in the
> market with their overpriced, preloaded systems.
> 
> -- 
> Michel Clasquin
> 
> And crawling on the planet's face,
> Some insects, called the human race,
> Lost in time, lost in space,
> And meaning.
> 
> 
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