Thank you Evans. At least there are those who see the bigger picture, the Elephant in the room. The government will give our kids windows dope, then when they are sysadmins, which platforms will they recommend to their companies? What will that do to our balance of trade? What would be the cumulative cost after say 10years? 50years? Only beggars understand "anything goes" On 04/06/2013, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow, I saw that one coming a long time ago.
@Bogi, MS will be happy to give free or subsidized OS on the laptops. I wish we can get the details here. Butt remember that Proprietary software is like dope. The first dose may be free, but its the second one that you pay for. And you pay dearly. For the rest of your life, till the dependency kills you. So MS is just happy to get the kids hooked and to get even closer to the Government so that they can continue reaping the licenses windfall, as a valued partner.
@Conrad, this is not a technical issue. It is a commercial and a strategic issue. MS is very sharp to exploit the commercial and strategic opportunity that this deal presents. Unfortunately the people advising the president have no clue what this means to the country. Either this or they are have sold their motherland to the interests of the global multinationals. At the same time, I wonder which virtualization you are referring to when we are still spending millions of dollars paying for Windows and MS Office licenses, while our children die in hospitals that don't have enough money to buy fuel for their generators.
Do we really believe that MS is here to help us? Really? So they have produced the richest man in the world by helping poor third world countries?
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Bogi Benga <bogibenda@gmail.com> wrote:
But Microsoft is only a software company. What exactly does this deal entail. Free OS?
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Conrad Akunga <conradakunga@gmail.com>wrote:
As usual, every technical discussion eventually degenerates into needless open vs closed source fighting.
In this era of virtualization this is a non-issue!
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
@Kivuva, in as much as I would love to go into hypersleep in a space craft auto piloted by an open source implementation, I think our young generation needs to be exposes to ANY computing platform, whether windows, linux, unix, etc. This will help break the initial fear of computing, and lay the foundations and open up the future.
Of course, if I was asked, I would say that if the young generation was exposed to Linux, they would be *better* *skilled* in future than if they were exposed to Windows, but that point is moot because...
If you consider our government as a young corporate, then the decision to go Microsoft will make logical, *corporatey*-sense.
IMHO, the reason Brazil, Germany, China and the other governments are heavy into open source is because they know better, which our government, does not, all factors considered.
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com>wrote:
So Microsoft will ensure our young generation don't grow on the mature and robust Open Source platform. As an economy, we will suffer more with licen$e$ and chasing the ever evolving Window$.
Can the local FOSSFA liaison persons Evans Ikua and Bonface Witaba see to it that FOSS interested is looked after?
Regards
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