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Cuba Says 'No More Microsoft,' Joins the Linux Bandwagon

Linked by weildish on Thu 12th Feb 2009 04:43 UTC

Cuba recently launched its own answer to Windows this week, or, in the bigger picture, what the Cubans are calling "US Hegemony." Nova, the new open source OS being offered by the Cuban government, is being made to boot out US-based Microsoft products.

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RE[5]: Congrats on FidelOS 0.1 :P

by sbergman27 on Thu 12th Feb 2009 19:24 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Congrats on FidelOS 0.1 :P"

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2005-07-24

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

I suspected that was what you meant. But what are you going to do? Ask the NSA, nicely, to please stop it?

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RE[6]: Congrats on FidelOS 0.1 :P

by steogede2 on Fri 13th Feb 2009 13:44 in reply to "RE[5]: Congrats on FidelOS 0.1 :P"

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2007-08-17

We could demand their extradition - but ignoring the fact that they are a government agency (and all the complications that would add), the British/US extradition treaty only goes one way at the moment.

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