Peter, that is what I have been singing about all along. If rich western and Eastern nations can see the economic sense of open source, and we can't, should that not explain why we remain poor? Its simply a matter of 'we just don't get it'.

There is definately a huge amount of Dollars that our government could be saving and spending the money in other worthy causes. Like feeding the Kenyans who are dying of hunger. How many people can money saved from one PC installation feed in a month?
Ikua

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Solomon Mburu Kamau <solo.mburu@gmail.com> wrote:
The reporter was perhaps doing his job... of reporting, though lopsided.
My training as a journalist, taught me to do enough research before
making the comment public, because any error is perceived as the
company view. Maybe the guy did not know the difference between
OpenICDL and Microsoft-based ICDL.

On 04/11/2009, Peter Osotsi <peter.osotsi@gmail.com> wrote:
> M$ ICDL? Or is it the BA graduates (are they journalists?) at the
> media houses that are ill informed? Or is it a case of a native
> Window$ user aka minister communicating on a serious ICT affair?
>
> The US .gov is moving open source, Kenya with all its poverty is going
> the $$ way, tells me how we don't know how to make/save wealth.
> ---
> Don't wait for success; hunt it down like there's no tomorrow.
> ---
>
> This is great! Absolutely need similar "open" skill set standards
> model here-that was never the contention. Rather that the media house
> reportedly concluded /suggested that GoK was Gazetting M$ - NOT FUNNY,
> at all,  or at the very least.
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