As usual, every technical discussion eventually degenerates into needless open vs closed source fighting. In this era of virtualization this is a non-issue! — 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
-- ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva twitter.com/lordmwesh
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