@Aki

Obviously we have veered off the original post but I guess these are valid point being raised here.

These 'small' I.T aspects have more effects than you would imagine.Without Operating Systems there CANNOT be any Information Technology.Case closed! :)

My second point is where I know I will attract all manner of bashing and insults without measure,but I am a courageous man.You see,as Kenyans,we are not yet as innovative as we should be or have imagined - myself included.Any time someone asks about Kenyan tech innovations,we are quick to mention Mpesa.Tell me something my dear country men and women,who lied to you that Mpesa is a Kenyan innovation?Do you know 5 Kenyan programmers who were involved in the active design and development of the Mpesa system?Five might be a very high number,mention two names.Do you know who owns the intellectual property to Mpesa?If your answer is Safaricom,you are wrong again!Claiming that Mpesa is a Kenyan innovation is the same as saying Microsoft Word was built by Kenyans simply because it has been very successful here!Heck,the system is not even hosted in Kenya!The ONLY system built by Kenyans which has been used the world over is Ushahidi.Ask me to mention at least one Kenyan who did it and I will mention the entire lot - Erick Hersman,Juliana Rotich and David Kobia.See?

I am hopeful that in the very near future,we will start seeing systems made in Kenya being used at least to solve some of our many problems and then some of the world's!

#signing_out



On 16 February 2012 12:43, maina <dmaishe@gmail.com> wrote:
@Aki since you called me a heckler,,what have you done that you can
show? rather than make alot of noisy and bashing on this Mlist

Do something abt those faults tht u always claim to see all the time.


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:37 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Moses, am not a troll or spite Operating Systems or the rest. All I see
> clearly is what is not happening and have to type in as is. However we must
> take the fight to all technologists to see the clear picture as its been
> painted for a few years now. This thread started off with someone asking
> help on an Operating System which has no benefit to the economy in many
> ways. Consider this and if you understand where KE came from the last 20
> years or so, the time is now and the future. The tech infrastructure is
> almost falling into place, but we are unable to occupy it because the
> current situation is that e.g Open Source has become like the "Off the
> Shelf" product and marketing is done accordingly, meaning quick fixes. Maybe
> I don't get it, but I don't see how we are going to do anything at all when
> most continents have produced their own versions of Open Source systems that
> suited their environments. Take Brazil as an example. This localisation has
> produced an active tech sector that many companies are involved in and are
> outsourcing skills learnt to other countries. And here we are, a major ICT
> country in our region and we are only capable of the usual petty
> self-inflicted consumerism stuff.
>
> Rgds. :-)
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Moses Muya <mouzmuyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Absolutely true!You see,when you are not bashing this group or the other
>> just for the sake of argument,I'm likely to agree with you! :) As you have
>> clearly put " ...Lack of progress is mine and your enemy..."  I'm out!
>>
>
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