[governance] Re: Microsoft skills training in Bhutan curriculum

[Jacqueline A. Morris]

Clap clap clap! 3 cheers for Carlos!!
That was my virtual standing ovation. 
Same thing is happening here  - they are offering to "help" the government
and "donate" software and training. The volunteer FOSS group (very small) is
trying to counter, but it is not easy to get the ear of the Govt compared to
the very well funded MS battalions. We're trying to get the schools into
FOSS before MS gets there.
Jacqueline

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Afonso [mailto:ca at rits.org.br]
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 19:13
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Stephane Bortzmeyer
> Cc: Nyangkwe Agien Aaron; Sylvia Caras
> Subject: Re: [governance] Re: Microsoft skills training in Bhutan
> curriculum
> 
> 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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