All in favor of Linux? -- Newsweek International, ( courtesy MSNBC :-)


Subject: All in favor of Linux? -- Newsweek International, ( courtesy MSNBC :-)
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 19:22:24 AKDT


Open-source software transforms technology in the developing world.
By Miriam Mahlow June 30/ July 7 issue — NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL
    With Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi,
         Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro and
         Paul Mooney in Beijing

“We need to be in charge of our own information-technology future,” says
Johann Eksteen of South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research.
  ...
In the developing world, the price of licensing Windows can be
astronomical. In South Africa, it costs around $280 per computer, which
is one reason the State IT Agency (SITA) declared in January that it
would switch to open source.

        <http://www.msnbc.com/news/928429.asp?cp1=1>

Some software experts argue that Microsoft products are too complicated
and prone to glitches, whereas Linux is simpler for a user to fix.
  ... the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre ...;
      the ... pudgy-penguin logo now graces the screens of most school,
      university and municipal-government computers. ...

For governments in particular, better security is another attraction of
Linux. Whereas Windows provides standardized safety settings, Linux’s
security options can be more easily customized.

  ... Gopalakrishnan, secretary to the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh
state in India, notes that using open-source software encourages
investment in a local industry of programmers ...

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