-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Mason wrote: | I think you are being a bit hard and skeptical- one has to admire | anyone who can donate this much money to poor people who desperately | need it. Who really cares what OS the businesses use when you have | aids and can't get treated? I'd like to be able to make this much | difference, however I got it. | <SNIP>
I had being keeping aside the thread, but a similar situation seems to be happening here in Peru. In December 2001, March and May 2002 a peruvian congressman proposes a bill to replace the proprietary software by open software in the public sector. This started a "flame war" between the manager of Microsoft Peru ( http://www.gnu.org.pe/mspemail.html)(English translation) and the congressman (http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html) (English translation), even though the American Chamber of Commerce in Lima (http://www.gnu.org.pe/text-amcham.html)(Spanish) , and the former American Ambassador (http://www.gnu.org.pe/lobbyusa-congreso.html)(Spanish fax) declared that this action "could slow down the international cooperation that Peru receives". Finally, our president traveled to Seattle, had a meeting with Gates, received a donation of computers and software for US$500,000 and the bill for open software was flushed down in the toilet. - -- Francisco Neira B. /~\ The ASCII ~ \ / Ribbon Campaign ~ X Against Lima, Peru, -05:00 UTC / \ HTML Email -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAj3TpwkACgkQkGxqImhGCe7h/ACgnu+NgCATQkUAwjwXNvd+a4cS Q/0AoI/p+bNp0XCgPoxPqr6rbX+MUHWl =4u76 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
