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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Evans Ikua <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ikua.evans@gmail.com">ikua.evans@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Take your time Aki. I will be watching this thread for just that. We do not fear or hate competition. Everyone has a right to his opinion and his choice of technology. I have no problem whatsoever with your choices. We are also consolidating our act and we are looking for worthy competition.<br>
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<div>Nice to hear this am very glad to hear that FOSS is also getting its core act on the right direction. Our proprietary group focus, still un-born, will have targets on the desktop and web levels. I don&#39;t think we have the level of people to write anything at the network or hardware layers, but who knows--things can change. The winner at the end is not only the coder but also the members of the public. :-)</div>

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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">On the other hand, my presumption is that local Open Source Developers are actually doing a great job globally, and that the proprietary developers can not make a similar claim. I may be wrong, but I need proof to the contrary. I think your earlier comments came out looking like you were setting up the two divides for a pissing contest.<br>
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<div>I disagree with you that Open Source are doing a great job in the same way that I fully agree proprietary coders in kenya are doing nothing. As a hobbyist coder I&#39;m not into a marketing war with anyone, we will get to the marketing wars once we have a strong proprietary coders group. If you read my top 3 comments on this thread, I wrote the reasons I was putting up the thread, and I found it very interesting to have discovered what I&#39;ve so far i.e what drove coders to levels with what motivations.  Has this thread provided me the motivation or inspiration? A few did and I was looking for something deeper from people who enjoy working at deeper level of code but unfortunately I can only find on the web.</div>

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<div>The road has just started...</div>
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<div>Some thots. :-)</div>
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