From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 10 02:03:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8811116A420 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:03:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pgoldone@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1740443D45 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:03:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pgoldone@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 12so160160nzp for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:03:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UImlNs6B0Af99cQhCk16OxvuqnqlephXMRSQbb69kybje7UO0J2D5I5AQvIwhzPVx3T6luDYe1It8GkLPjzz6Z8tVLBAvT1A93CbyFvnGn6imlO7HzR+zfG4iowpDfuroqPpdBnkT2FXVT3vn7MJ7/CISgU63viHP2qHutC9Zuk= Received: by 10.64.96.5 with SMTP id t5mr12072qbb; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.47.11 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:03:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <96341e070603091803l111d1b10ie16d5ddc50aca89@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:03:35 -0200 From: Pgold To: "Olivier Nicole" In-Reply-To: <200603100137.k2A1bpN0021581@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308211347.02261468@broadpark.no> <200603100137.k2A1bpN0021581@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:03:36 -0000 Sorry Nicole, but here in Brazil our government does not use pirated software, and yes, they're changing to Open Source. Well, sadly home users still use pirated software(windows). But I guess this may be coming to an end, or not expanding, since the new "cheap" computer for the poor people comes with Free Software. On 3/9/06, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > I'm writing this thesis on the benefits of integrating > > open source software into third world countries to boost > > their economies and the knowledge of their people. > > Certainly not the answer you are expecting, but I am afraid it is the > reality, developping countries do not really care about open source. > > They just use pirated software (windows) because it takes less time to > start-up, because it cames with better internationalization... > > Time comes when they reach the limits of using pirated software and > turning to open source is a solution, but that needs a certain level > of development. > > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >