[governance] Re: Microsoft skills training in Bhutan curriculum

[Carlos Afonso]

Microsoft is a kind of virtual Coca-Cola for most countries... In the 
case of Coke, most countries (incredibly) do not have their own soft 
drinks, due to the absolute dominance of this world monopoly on flavored 
gaseous water, aka the dark water of imperialism. I know, if a national 
soft drink is popular, the Coke magnates will either overrun it or adopt 
it and make money out of it. They tried to do this in Brazil with dozens 
of local producers of guaraná (managed to bankrupt many of them), but 
this drink is so established which they now produce a (lousy) version of it.

It seems M$-Cola has huge leverage with less developed areas' 
governments, probably due to a misunderstanding (or lack of interest) on 
how the "donations" work and their consequences. But they could have 
their own "soft drink" -- in this case, free and open source software.

--c.a.

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:24:46PM +0100,
>  Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien at gmail.com> wrote 
>  a message of 133 lines which said:
> 
>> That is great news but when will Microsoft be bringing this to
>> Cameroon?
> 
> Sure, it is time to replace the public monopolies by private
> monopolies.
> 
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