These debates of open/closed source are pointless and juvenile, especially coming from veterans in the industry.<div><br></div><div>Mwananchi does nor know nor care how things run, provided they a) Work and b) solve his problems.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Can we at least get to that point before having these spurious arguments. Our police stations use counter books for records. Marriage registries use typewriters and box files. The city council and lands ministries are festooned with box files and papers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And we are here on ivory towers arguing over open vs closed source leaving fundamentals unaddressed!</div><div><br></div><div>Pragmatic people have no need to resort to extremism. Just as there is room on roads for Mercedes S Class and Toyota Vitz I&#39;m pretty sure there is room for Open and Closed Source software.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for the issue of cost - I encourage folks to look at it from an economics perspective. Cost and value are very different things.<span></span></div><div><br>On Sunday, September 16, 2012, Mark Mwangi  wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">All I see is opportunity. Am not anti Microsoft or any closed source software company. Painting open source software as insecure, unsupportable and almost unhygienic is not being realistic in my opinion. <div>
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The reason there aren&#39;t many linux folk is because there is no demand for them. If the govt decided that everything on their systems (or at least most) would be foss then thats where the talent will gravitate. It starts with a stance though. <br>


<br><div>On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Agosta Liko <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>agostal@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

issue is Open Source is free but very few people know linux or mysql as well as the closed guys who know aix and oracel very well.<br><br>IT does not matter, all that matters is how well one can support whatever they are deploying ....<br>



<br><br><br><div><div>On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>odhiambo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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Given that Kenya is not the first country to make such a move, I see no reason for M$ to spell doom, really.<br><br>Kenya can learn and borrow from those countries. I am sure M$ knows that there are countries already fully on FOSS.<br>





<br><br><br><div><div>On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Mark Mwangi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>mwangy@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div><div>
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Isnt it interesting that it is only closed source software vendors spelling doom and gloom?<div><div><br><br><div>On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:34 PM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>awatila@yahoo.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>






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Last week, the Government issued a warning that in the next three<br>
years it will move its IT operations to Free and Open Source Software<br>
(FOSS), a move that will reduce cost by more than half in IT expenses.<br>
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<a href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000066158&amp;story_title=State-warned-on-ditching-copyrighted-software" target="_blank">http://www.standardmedia.co.<u></u>ke/?articleID=2000066158&amp;<u></u>story_title=State-warned-on-<u></u>ditching-copyrighted-software</a> <br>







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