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Pardon me, but your ignorance is showing...
Why dont you google
government adopts linux
and continue your education.
So I can use this open source ping list, so long as I don't refer to it as an "OSS ping", correct? I guess you have that trademarked or something.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/next/linux-trademark-protection-comes-at-a-cost-for-some/2005/08/15/1123957995044.html?oneclick=true
Funny, let me guess they're dirt poor too...
Also funny is that they want "choices" and they want it for "free"... Two mutially exclusive ideas in the long run if those "choices" have any value...
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, O Siren of Redmond.
Geez...buy, rent or borrow a clue already.
I am from Kerala. Kerala was introduced to Christianity in 52 AD by Jesus' disciple Thomas. As a result of the Christian influence, the church invested in literacy (schools and universities), healthcare (hospitals), and other projects designed to improve the standard of care of all of the people: hindu, muslim, and Christian.
Historically, the land had been divided into kingdoms, that gave way to a population of land and home owners and a set of poor people. Because of the great success of the education initiatives, even the poor were literate. When Karl Marks' works became available, the "labor class" or "workers" were able to read it. Many charlatans took advantage of this to try and exploited these people. The began a class war that took the lives of a great many hardworking and descent people and stole their lands.
Through intimidation and a mob-like rule, they still control politics from the local to the state-wide level.
Some might claim that the good has come from the commies, but that is simply not the case. As is true with all communist regimes, the first victim is truth. History is rewritten and propaganda flows freely.
A turkish friend told me that you can buy Windoze XP for $1 on the streets of Istanbul. So, in some parts of the world, the competition is between two forms of "free" software.
How do you feel about Microsoft opening the source to a large portion of .Net and C#?
the GOVERNMENTS of communist countries prefer MICROSOFT, which is more than willing to deal with totalitarian governments and modify their product to the wishes of the government and allow those governments to control what the people are allowed to see and do with their computers, whereas with linux, the PEOPLE have the source code and the compilers and can change the code to circumvent these controls, and are thus not as easy to control...