Wednesday, May 04, 2005

� Why the third world won’t save open source | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

� Why the third world won’t save open source | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

My opinion about this blog:
This is a kind of propaganda for Microsoft, but useful to see how poor the arguments for Microsoft is. I believe proprietary systems will die slowly, just like the music and movie industry as we see it today. The big multinational companies of course try to prolong the life proprietary systems as long as possible with convincing politicians around the world that it is in their benefit to do so. The proprietary business need to establish the patent systems and the proprietary standards before the first miracle-nations build themself up with fiber/Wimax/cheap notebooks/cluster-computers and GNU/Linux like Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu. Today, this argumentation is a variant of the "white mans burden". The history repeat itself again and again... It is sooo important that the third world buy the glass pearls because...

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