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Linux is nowadays the ONLY viable alternative for poor countries. While americans can buy Apple machines, pay for expensive softwares, etc, third-world countries can't have this luxury.

Even if english is not our native language, we are trying to adopt use linux at large scale as desktop operating system (the linux advantages for servers is obvius). Windows XP can be more user-friendly but your price is abusive for us. A single copy of Windows XP is 3 times the minimum salay in Brazil and a copy of M$ Office is 5 or 6x the minimum salary, perceived by 40% of population.

Don't think that users are completely stupid. They can adapt to linux rapidly if trained. Windows is not in human DNA and these users need to be trained also for Windows operation. People used DOS in 198x until 1995, even for writing documents, spreadsheets, etc.

I don't understand why I see more resistance to linux in USA than in my country (Brazil) and other countries. The most of software is written in english, the most of information is diponible in english, you have more scholarity, etc.

Linux is spreading here like a fire, while BSA promote an inquisition agains piracy. Linux also can recicle old computers if we use it like graphical terminals of a more powerfull computer.