Before we start making an open source version of Ubuntu in Swahili that shall suit us as a country, like Brazil did,We must start somewhere.

Is anyone on this list aware that a group of volunteers from Mozilla-Kenya of which am a member is localizing Firefox into Swahili? On Twitter @mozillakenya 


MediaWiki is another open source software on which all Wikimedia projects run. Wikipedia being one of them had 7,636,788,561 page views in January only. Like someone mentioned earlier on this list adopt what you think shall best solve your problem. You can view more Wikimedia Stats here.

Guys/Chicks who build open source products are driven by passion though money must come in but not the primary, because as we cannot eat virtual fruits that we can simulate on our laptops.

It is not about marketing or competition, it is about what you deem fit to use and up to purpose. Take for instance, the recent stats that showed Chrome was doing better was doing better than Firefox. The Mozilla foundation clearly stated that was a good result, since it shows the web is getting better and thats a plus for them since thats their mission.

Why did Facebook decide to open source its own version of PHP, alias HIPHOP Php?.....

Open source rocks and rocks are free.

//Stephen

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:27 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Paul, IMHO, just because people like me don't fall into the category and motto used by FOSSists users or developers i.e. To use and promote Free/Open Software Systems in Africa which places a very different angle to software development does not mean that am playing politics here. It is most of the people who swear-by and practise the above motto that seem to get very upset when the actual discussion is to try and maybe to do something else. Do I now have the correct concept, or am I still mistaken? Corrections welcome. :-)

@Maina, I'm glad to read the article you provided. Good luck on the success of FOSS, hope it does well. You are really living the FOSS Motto, so I'm glad I now understand where many of you are coming from when crazy people like me criticize such things. :-)

@Moses, points taken however IMHO please keep in mind that software development is very different. After almost 2 years of self study, I now understand how it works to a certain depth. To me both proprietary and open systems are huge competition for local development because of the amount of resources and established markets. So where do those who don't follow the above two stand on pure software development in a localised settings? :-)


Rgds. 

 

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