On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
What I meant Crystal is that our leaders are like McCain. They are ok, but they just don't get it!
Maybe some "get it" lots of it... that they cannot help with the temptation of perpetuating Open Source misinformation to maintain "their getting" status quo?
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Crystal Watley Kigoni <crystal@voicesofafrica.org> wrote:
Evans, I have to disagree on this one. As long as people do not have access to information and knowledge we will remain poor. OpenSource allows us to reach a greater number of people at a lower cost and to create the software necessary to alleviate our own poverty. People get it once they understand that there are laws against software piracy.
Please remember that more than 70% of the population lives outside of cities without access to electricity. It isn't that they don't get it. It is that they haven't been given the opportunity to learn.
Crystal
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
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