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- Striker101, on 05/22/2008, -28/+139m$oft thereby shows once again it's holier-than-thou attitude, plus a shade of prejudice that's both surprising and disturbing.
After 4 years of frustration it was finally Ubuntu at v.7.10 which advanced it's Linux distro to the point where I managed a happy switch, followed now by a smooth sweetheart upgrade to 8.04. I haven't even booted into windoze for a month now.
Last week I bought a new laptop with Vista (as that was the only choice at that moment). I knew it would be thus, but Vista is truly a step backward from XP, so the new laptop will soon be running on Ubuntu.
So hurray for what those Africans have learned! - yetAnotherCroc, on 05/22/2008, -5/+99“South Africa has taken a most unfortunate position of late - the government has sought to put a political mandate in place for the adoption of open source software,” Matusow writes.
“But, the most serious issue to me is that they are not looking at the real benefits that OSS can bring them.”
Translation: "They are turning to OSS and we (MSFT) are freaking out about it so we decide to play on all the racial and cultural prejudice about Africa in general so other countries don't follow their example."
Why would South Africans inevitably not be able to contribute to OSS? Is it because "Brown people don't understand technology" or some other similar conception? This isn't Ethiopia we are talking about. SA has been pretty modern and up to speed on tech in comparison to the more chaotic parts of Africa. - badassninja, on 05/22/2008, -15/+102
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- TheFounder, on 05/22/2008, -17/+74Dear Microsoft ,
I formated my hard drive to remove your bloatware Vista.. and installed my South African created Ubuntu... just so I could type a big ***** you on Digg. - JoeRandom, on 05/22/2008, -2/+49That huge landmass is Africa. That little country on the bottom is South Africa. I was thinking "No Rwanda probably wont provide much to the linux community". South Africa on the other hand already does.
- Eoxx, on 05/22/2008, -4/+47"Africans don't understand how to benefit from OSS" ...
... hopefully the good guys at Microsoft will explain them how to do that with Novell ... ;) - legendxx, on 05/22/2008, -6/+47Dear TheFounder,
Sorry, I couldn't read your comment due to the mountain of cash blocking my screen. I hope to see it by the time my grandchildren spend it all.
Regards,
Microsoft - wozyjob, on 05/22/2008, -1/+40I am African.
I have been employed as a software engineer for over a decade. - inactive, on 05/22/2008, -4/+42As a South African developer and supporter of Open Source methodologies, I feel insulted by such an ignorant and sweeping generalization made in the face of evidence to the contrary, in the form of aforementioned South African-based projects as well as a vibrant and active South African FOSS community. I try my best to be fair and not hate Microsoft, but they're not making it very easy.
- marketmou, on 05/22/2008, -6/+43How incredibly, breathtakingly arrogant and stupid.
- ojk007, on 05/22/2008, -7/+42ubuntu: [A Zulu word, literally meaning “humanness.” Ubuntu is a social and spiritual philosophy serving as a framework for African society.]
Microsoft's Jason Matusow, obviously doesnt understand the principles behind ubuntu, which the operating system of the same name contain, and most of linux for that matter. - BoneheadFarker, on 05/22/2008, -9/+44So wanting an operating system that just ***** works makes me a sheep? If so...baaaah...
- badassninja, on 05/22/2008, -4/+33You know, I used to use Open Source software just because the software is better in every way, there is no stopping the open source movement and because Open source/Free software is the only moral thing to do ( thank you Richard Stallmen ). My new reason is to pound Microsoft's ass into the ground. Just to force them to pay for bull ***** smear propaganda like this. How anyone can support lieing scum in a suit like this is past me.
- twtmc, on 05/22/2008, -0/+27If Mark Shuttleworth hasn't contributed to Linux, then Martin Luther King didn't contribute to the Civil Rights movement (I wanted to say Bill Gates to Windows, but the linux equivalent of Gates is Linus Torvalds. Sorry for the bad analogy).
- GregFD3S, on 05/22/2008, -4/+27Open Source + Microsoft = WTF??
- vuke69, on 05/22/2008, -0/+22"Pfft... On what? An abacus?"
-Jason Matusow - whereiseljefe, on 05/22/2008, -0/+20Clearly Jason Matusow doesn't know who Shuttleworth is and where Shuttleworth came from...
- NSResponder, on 05/22/2008, -0/+20" I try my best to be fair and not hate Microsoft"
Oh, go ahead and hate Microsoft. They've earned it.
-jcr - Senn, on 05/22/2008, -4/+24I don't know about you, but Linux "just ***** works" a lot easier for me than Windows does now.
- BXRWXR, on 05/22/2008, -1/+20Stay classy, dude.
- whereiseljefe, on 05/22/2008, -1/+18It's free and it works, but you don't understand how this can benefit you.
See paying us all that money you don't really have anyways for lock-ins, restrictions, and instability will give us, I MEAN you benefits! - inactive, on 05/22/2008, -3/+18Is it the cash, or the fact that your computer doesn't work?
- DreKor, on 05/22/2008, -0/+15That thing always makes me smile, regardless of context.
- lesmalan, on 05/22/2008, -1/+15As a South African using Ubuntu, I say "jou Ma se moer!"
- mistermaster, on 05/22/2008, -0/+14Even worse, we always refer to people in Europe as "European". Talk about racism!
- geehossiphats, on 05/22/2008, -2/+15Put the chair down Steve.
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- oxdeltaxo, on 05/22/2008, -0/+12The like to think the since SA doesn't occupy at least 30% of the continental land mass that it is insignificant as a contributor....But they're willing to milk them for all the cash they have. I can think up a million arbitrary reasons m$ would spew out because it doesn't like OSS.
- Octaman, on 05/22/2008, -2/+13Micro$oft, Appl€, £inux... who cares?
- yetAnotherCroc, on 05/22/2008, -1/+12huh?
- portlyfrank, on 05/22/2008, -4/+14What staggering arrogance!
However I have a solution. As South Africa is such a backward country in Microsoft's view, the Gates Foundation should inject a large sum into it's economy for the developement of OSS, obviously applying those lessons it, Microsoft, has learned in producing the bilge knwon as windos.
Bet that warrants the "Blue Screen of Death" when next I fire up a Windows poered device! - insonh, on 05/22/2008, -2/+12ok lets start calling them New Yorkers
happy now? - geehossiphats, on 05/22/2008, -5/+14I learned programming (bash) on a Suse Linux box in college. After that I was able to teach myself php, perl and eventually javascript.
I think Jason Matusow is out of touch with noobs. Oh, and my partner in my programming class was from Kenya. He learned faster than I did. Perhaps Jason Matusow is under the impression that "Africans" aren't capable of learning anything other than microsofts garbage.
Shameful. - TheWindBlows, on 05/22/2008, -1/+10Whats a copy of Vista cost like 1 Billion ZIM then a computer able to actually run Vista is another 10 Billion ZIM ?
versus
Linux Free cost of a computer that can run a decent Linux distro around 2-4 Billion ZIM or some donated hardware. - truthhammer, on 05/22/2008, -0/+9We are from the mooon, obey or be destroyed.
- SSXDRN, on 05/22/2008, -0/+8I'm going to buy a System 76 this x-mas, if you'd like a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled perhaps this might be your choice http://www.system76.com
- fuzzlog, on 05/22/2008, -4/+12Can you say FUD? Talk about insulting intelligence then try to sell ***** to people they just insulted. Of course, someone and a whole team of people out of South Africa who are lot smarter than M$ will ever figure already produced a small 'deep development product' that is a windoze killer and is already being felt at M$ as a thorn in their foot. The pain is growing. Ubuntu has M$ secretly shaking in their boots.
- Ryosen, on 05/23/2008, -0/+8"Is 'foxhaze' being offensive?"
No, just an asshat. - shakin, on 05/22/2008, -0/+8I wonder why he'd say that. Oh wait, here's why:
"Matusow says that for South Africa to really benefit from open source it should apply OSS development and licensing methodologies at the app-dev and tools layer, rather than thinking of the core OS as an OSS opportunity for them."
I see, so he thinks South Africa will only benefit if they us open source software in areas that doesn't directly affect Microsoft's bottom line. Now it all makes sense. - BrainInAJar, on 05/22/2008, -2/+10the linux equivalent to gates is ESR...
unproductive, worthless self-aggrandizing troll that hasn't written a single line of significant code in the entire project's lifetime - rockus, on 05/22/2008, -4/+12Microsoft surely do understand OSS! After all aren't they the ones being drubbed by the FOSS movement?
- Calculon, on 05/22/2008, -0/+8I think you answered your own question.
- YourDoom123, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8that was his point...
- colonelbuckshot, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8Go to Cape Town, Johannesburg, Mogadishu, Kinshasa, etc, and tell me if you see Africans living according to ubuntu. Ubuntu exists in the demagoguery of black leaders and in the imaginations of white liberals.
- PopcornDave, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8Cave wall, obviously.
/sarcasm - rivalius13, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8It's friggin' awesome, that's what it is.
- StealthTomato, on 05/22/2008, -0/+7Holy crap. You're....you're serious, aren't you?
C'mon now, say it with me.
"Europeans are from Europe. Asians are from Asia. Australians are from Australia. Africans are from Africa."
(note: don't get me started on the whole notion that "Americans" is a term used to describe US citizens. "Americans" is, and should be used as, a term to describe people from the Americas, North and South.) - legendxx, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8And why do people call people from the US Americans?!! We are USA-inians. Seriously.. that was an incredibly retarded comment plundstedt.
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