Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Nov 2005 18:05 UTC, submitted by sebFlyte
Some governments have embraced the potential of open source, while others seem culturally opposed to the whole concept. Deciding what lies at the heart of some countries' almost-zealous uptake of open source is not as simple as looking at the cold, hard costs - politics, national security, anti-Americanism and innovation all have a part to play.
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what was that..blah blah blahblah...? Interesting psuedo-intellectual argument for .. something I guess.., but I'm not sure what. here is the simple thing.. i have a class called intro to windows.. it isnt . its actually all about ms office. To americans .. a computer is MS office.. windows is just the engine.. they dont care what office runs on. and neither do businesses , your mom or girlfriend. Currently im just trying to figure out how im going to fudge all my homework on oo.0rg2 running on ubuntu...