Star Miguel de Icaza: Rest of the World to Eventually Force US Into Linux
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th May 2004 02:54 UTC
Novell and Ximian Last Thursday OSNews had the opportunity to meet Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome, Ximian and among other things leader of the much discussed, Mono project. Miguel is a talented and versatile developer but he is also a very intelligent businessman able to understand the industry on many different levels. Talking to Miguel guarantees that you are very quickly taken away by his enthusiasm and optimism and his thoughtful strategies and vision on how OSS will take over the world.
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by James on Mon 10th May 2004 05:13 UTC

I think that people in most third world countries buy most of their more expensive goodies paying a little bit each month. For example, 600 USD could be paid in 24 months, but there would still be the interests which would make it even more expensive.
And if you feel pity of them, imagine the new Longhorn that will require something like 4 to 6 GHz and 1 to 2 GBs of ram (of course the real requirements can't be known so before-hand).
And the use of pirated software isn't something one should be proud of. So the real pain for them is to fork the money to pay for software.
You can you your computer as soon as you have the hardware, so that's the only expense that most are willing to pay for.
(Disclose: I live in Brazil)