I have appended my answers to your questions in bold.<div><br></div><div><span style><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Google, Facebook running on Open Source is an achievement and probably a marketing self-denial strategy used to justify ones ignorance that YOU played not a SINGLE PART in it  -- </font><b><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I was giving examples where Open Source has worked perfectly.I am not marketing anything and neither i&#39;m i taking responsibility for their sucess,it is your right to ignore something that is before your eyes.</font></b></span></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>.  All you did was become the end user who bought into the idea that its free and can run services. <b>-- all I did was to subscribe to systems that worked the way I wanted/expected them to..just like Open Source is wont to,</b></span></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style> So you know how to configure a mail server or a proxy? How does this fit into Vision 2030 ICT then. <b>-- </b></span><b style>If you have been following any news in Kenya,you will understand that ICT will play a very big role in the achievement of Vision 2030.</b><b style> Vision 2030 is a but a blue print,just like an architectural drawing,it is useless if we will not have people to implement what has been proposed in it.I do not know about you,but I am one of the implementors! :)</b></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 February 2012 11:35, aki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aki275@gmail.com">aki275@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
@Moses,<div><br></div><div>Google, Facebook running on Open Source is an achievement and probably a marketing self-denial strategy used to justify ones ignorance that YOU played not a SINGLE PART in it.  All you did was become the end user who bought into the idea that its free and can run services. So you know how to configure a mail server or a proxy? How does this fit into Vision 2030 ICT then.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Rgds. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Moses Muya <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mouzmuyer@gmail.com" target="_blank">mouzmuyer@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>@everyone_else</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone who bashes open source is either misinformed or just being special(noun. a crazy person.Example in a sentence,Special school).Unless you just landed from a 10-year trip to Mars,you do know Google,Facebook,Yahoo and Amazon(just to name a few) were all built on Open Source products.The US military,Russian Government,Indian Government e.t.c all run Open Source products.Closer home,John Gitau stated on this list that he designed systems for a large ISP almost entirely based on Open Source products(excluding the networking gear).I know Open Source installations that have been running longer than my career has spanned...silently and with power in those dark D.C rooms.What more evidence do you want?Would you like us to turn water into wine for you to believe us?For someone to say that the reason why companies cannot maintain a 99.999999 up-time is because of Open Source software would be tantamount to blaming the President and Prime Minister for the hot weather we are experiencing in Nairobi - totally baseless! The same person bashing Open Source is the same person bashing people born at a certain time.As to that,I would advice you to get back to us when you have serious matters to talk about,our generation was taught to ignore people who want to argue for the sake of it! :)</div>


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