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Nigeria Favors Mandriva Over Microsoft Once More (PCWorld)
PCWorld reports
that Nigeria now plans to keep Mandriva on its Classmate PCs. "Now,
however, a government agency funding 11,000 of the PCs has overruled the
supplier: Nigeria's Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) wants to keep
Mandriva Linux on the Classmate PCs, said an official who identified
himself as the program manager for USPF's Classmate PCs project. "We are
sticking with that platform," said the official, who would not give his
name."
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Nigeria Favors Mandriva Over Microsoft Once More (PCWorld) Posted Nov 9, 2007 19:15 UTC (Fri) by TxtEdMacs (subscriber, #5983) [Link] " ... official, who would not give his name." Somehow I cannot take this as the definitive answer as to Nigeria's ultimate actions, though it stems from the supposed program manager. It just might be the price is still in question, not what OS finally lands on the hardware. To MS, it's no more than change found on the floor that's put to good use.
Nigeria Favors Mandriva Over Microsoft Once More (PCWorld) Posted Nov 10, 2007 1:54 UTC (Sat) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link] To MS, it's no more than change found on the floor that's put to good use. This statement sounds really odd to me. Microsoft might not care about the money, but they certainly do care about retaining their dominance in the market. Individual decisions like this add up over time in helping to introduce Linux to the desktop market, so they count as lost battles for Microsoft.
Nigeria Favors Mandriva Over Microsoft Once More (PCWorld) Posted Nov 10, 2007 15:46 UTC (Sat) by TxtEdMacs (subscriber, #5983) [Link] Simple. MS will find bit more change to get the result they are seeking. Note my saying the price has not been set.
Nigeria Favors Mandriva Over Microsoft Once More (PCWorld) Posted Nov 12, 2007 9:34 UTC (Mon) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link] A little more written support for countries that make these decisions all be it a little vague would be nice instead of the normal almost discounting comments we see , Whilst it may be small change to that bunch of Redmond jerk offs it is still a small victory . A little less support for the Redmond chimps and more support for Linux in general would be nice do you not think .. #
Nigeria Favors Mandriva Over Microsoft Once More (PCWorld) Posted Nov 12, 2007 3:57 UTC (Mon) by heksys (guest, #41569) [Link] It could be one or a billion it still is a win for GNU/Linux and to us, that should count!
Nigeria Favors Mandriva Over Microsoft Once More (PCWorld) Posted Nov 12, 2007 10:16 UTC (Mon) by dune73 (subscriber, #17225) [Link] For years we have been reading news like this. They lure us into the belief that ultimate victory must be close. Actually any time now. But the fact is, that Linux on the desktop still accounts to less machines then Macs and that is not much. So headlines like this are nice and I am happy for every Nigerian child exposed to a Mandrive machine, BUT it just does not matter within the big picture. We use if for shoulder tapping and Anti-M$ FUD, but this is ridiculous. It does not matter on the big scale. A headline like "12 Million of Linux Desktops counted in schools in 26 countries around the world counted by UNESO" would matter. All the rest is local news. We read it, because we lack the important news in this category and we want to feel good. But under the line there is little importance. To us. And I am not even sure it's much for my estimate of 20-50 Millions of school children in Nigeria. regs, dune73
Nigeria Favors Mandriva Over Microsoft Once More (PCWorld) Posted Nov 12, 2007 10:32 UTC (Mon) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link] I don't think it amounts to less than Mac, actually, but it's impossible to say for sure.
Statistics Posted Nov 12, 2007 11:08 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] I think that statistics must be put into perspective. 1% of US web users can be more than 1 million people; and the same (or more) for the EU. Arguably most of us are technically savvy; and the percentage of users must be higher since many of us are forced to use Windows at work or in certain environments. (For example, half my visits to LWN are from Windows, even if by choice I'm a Linux user.) We might estimate as much as twice the percentage of visits.4 million technically savvy users is a lot, and that is a victory in itself. The better mousetrap is out there and getting better all the time.
Statistics Posted Nov 12, 2007 22:15 UTC (Mon) by csawtell (guest, #986) [Link] Let's all get counted!You can register the fact that you are a linux user at The Linux Counter. If everybody did this then all the lies and statistics about Linux would become facts, and lots of people would be in for a big surprise.
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