Windows is well known to have backdoors for the FBI and CIA and has had them for quite some time.

Incorrect.

It is the NSA that has "access keys" implanted in all version of Windows since XP. The NSA have the right to spy on whatever the user is doing.

The FBI and CIA do not. They need a court approved warrant to be sent to the NSA to view access.

The NSA have the right to spy on whatever the user is doing.

The FBI and CIA do not. They need a court approved warrant to be sent to the NSA to view access.

Sovereignty is the exclusive right to control a government, a country, a people, or oneself. A Sovereign is the supreme lawmaking authority.

An important attribute of sovereignty is its degree of absoluteness. A sovereign power (whether an individual or an assembly such as a parliament) has absolute sovereignty if it has the unlimited right to control everything and every kind of activity in its territory.

I should point out that the person who sent out the memo is a newly appointed director, he came to us from PC World.

Clearly, in running Windows a government cannot really claim it has sovereignty over its own data. Much of its data will be locked away in obscure proprietary formats ...

The Cuban people apparently need independence from Microsoft

"Clearly, in running Windows a government cannot really claim it has sovereignty over its own data. Much of its data will be locked away in obscure proprietary formats ...

Clear winner for the first option, from the Cuban government point of view.

Let me put it this way.

When a man is dying of incurable cancer, would you organise a party with balloons and pinatas when the doctor tells you he cured that man's ingrown toenail?

Wrong, the NSA may have the right to spy on US users, but not any user in the world.

When a man is dying of incurable cancer, would you organise a party with balloons and pinatas when the doctor tells you he cured that man's ingrown toenail?

I find it kind of sad that people apparently find it okay that the Cuban government cares more about possible backdoors in software than it does about the well-being of its own people.

I wonder what it is about Cuba that so fascinates us.

Let me put it this way.

When a man is dying of incurable cancer, would you organise a party with balloons and pinatas when the doctor tells you he cured that man's ingrown toenail?

Cuba is a totalitarian dictatorship. I find it kind of sad that people apparently find it okay that the Cuban government cares more about possible backdoors in software than it does about the well-being of its own people.

I wonder what it is about Cuba that so fascinates us.

You people don't have any idea of what means to live in Cuba, free software or not. Most Cubans don't have the RIGHT ( not the possibility ) to use internet ( or many other things ). The government is not doing this because they believe in freedom ( they don't , any kind ), they are doing it because they are afraid of getting into trouble because of their use of pirated software at all levels.

I think it may be because Castro has given the U.S the middle finger right in their face for more than 45 years.
Gotta respect that, if nothing else.

[q]You people don't have any idea of what means to live in Cuba, free software or not. Most Cubans don't have the RIGHT ( not the possibility ) to use internet ( or many other things ). The government is not doing this because they believe in freedom ( they don't , any kind ), they are doing it because they are afraid of getting into trouble because of their use of pirated software at all levels.

Not really the smartest move considering the effects of the embargo on them

but Cuba is just plain screwed.

Bad US government spying on nations and individuals by using Backdoors etc

Worse drug traffickers

child pornographers

state sponsored terrorism

Worse the US imposing its will and corrupt un-elected governments on other countries against the will of their peoples

Its difficult sometimes to tell the bad from the worse.

Because Cuba is a lot closer to the US than Sudan.

America is the only country that has spies?

You mean like Columbia?

You mean like Austria?

Like say Iran or Syria?

Is that some kind of veiled reference to Iraq where they just had elections?

Yeah, especially if you think all the world's evil is centered in the U.S. and Cuba

Cuba is a totalitarian dictatorship.

I'm pretty sure "Nova" means "Doesn't go" in Spanish. If it didn't work for a car, it shouldn't work for a distro.

This legend assumes that a handful of General Motors executives launched a car into a foreign market and remained in blissful ignorance about a possible adverse translation of its name. Even if nobody in Detroit knew enough rudimentary Spanish to notice the coincidence, the Nova could not have been brought to market in Mexico and/or South America without the involvement of numerous Spanish speakers [...]

Clearly, in running Windows a government cannot really claim it has sovereignty over its own data. Much of its data will be locked away in obscure proprietary formats ...

Ah! A post related to OSes... I thought I would never see the day...

Venezuela can get away with that because they have the oil, but Cuba is just plain screwed.

Last year Fidel Castro stepped down from the throne and let his son take over. Last year also saw the right for regular citizens to obtain and use personal computers. That's a start in my opinion. Government support for an OS which whomever citizen can modify to his or her liking is also a step towards some freedom.

Windows is well known to have backdoors for the FBI and CIA and has had them for quite some time.

Windows Vista or XP should be used in place of Linux or Solaris on the servers and all personal computers should be running Windows Vista.

Where on earth did you get such a preposterous idea?

it would be against all current laws and US Federal regulations, and therefore would be shut down.

"Where on earth did you get such a preposterous idea?

Pause for a few minutes while shills retort that they need this or that feature in Office/Photoshop/Publisher/Quark whatever....

Applications are almost always disposable, they can easily be replaced.....

You do know that Russia isn't communist anymore, right?

Fascism is an authoritarian nationalist ideology focused on solving economic, political, and social problems that its supporters see as causing national decline or decadence. Fascists aim to create a single-party state in which the government is led by a dictator who seeks unity by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or a race. Fascist movements promote violent conflict between nations, political factions, and races as part of a social Darwinist view that conflict between these groups is natural and a part of evolution

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Windows Vista or XP should be used in place of Linux or Solaris on the servers and all personal computers should be running Windows Vista.

"Pause for a few minutes while shills retort that they need this or that feature in Office/Photoshop/Publisher/Quark whatever....

Last year Fidel Castro stepped down from the throne and let his son take over.

I didn't say I had proof, but I had the source of where he got the idea. And if that doesn't make you wonder, there is something wrong with you. I don't really get your Watergate comment. It was an actual conspiracy, and a good example of one at that:

1. The government has broken the law knowingly and with impunity.

2. There have been confirmed "conspiracies" to deprive people of rights and privacy.

3. Even if they are badly executed, you might not find out about them unless someone on the inside blabs.

You miss my point. The NSA have the USA's permission to spy on whoever they want, but that only makes it legal in the US

Looks like the Free(dom Fries) Software Movement(tm) has made some interesting bedfellows!

Six more Linux users!! What's that push the market share to... 0.84%?

Didn't Microsoft have a program where someone could pay to look at Windows' source code?

That's what the whole FICA mess was about.

Fica?

The Etats-Unians ( citizne of USofA ) people first and foremost need independence from the oppressive and exploitative Etats-Unians government. This press release is government propaganda.

The CANADIANS people first and foremost need independence from the oppressive and exploitative CANADIAN government. This press release is government propaganda.

The NETHERLAND people first and foremost need independence from the oppressive and exploitative NETHERLAND government. This press release is government propaganda.

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Your words are hollow and empty ...

This is my polite and short reply.

I never get why the US as to be #1 in the bad list for the US citizien to realize they have a huge problem , where as most sane country like CANADA would be in shock just to be on the list in the first place.

In the US your in the top 5 of most of the bad list people can come up with but since your not the #1 on those bad list it's not a real problem for you why ?

No idea if it can be downloaded outside of the country, but I did a half-minutes' search on Google and found that it's based off of Gentoo. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/62558/software-libre-cuba-... There's also a link to a video that shows the OS in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTXIzaxfox4 Interesting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTXIzaxfox4

Or Sweden, which is pretty much the most liberated nation in the world?

and no one is forcing me to use Chinese or Taiwanese products

Which I might add, enables their workers to earn a living and pursue a better life.

Cuba's economy is closed and not even China requires their citizens to use a state designed operating system(aka spyware).