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Open Asia: Open source in Iran and Israel (NewsForge)
NewsForge takes a look
at Open source in Iran and Israel. ""It's a red herring. I challenge
anyone to tell me how open source will solve any of our major problems," a
prominent professor from the US recently posted on the BytesForAll_Readers
mailing list. Arash Zeini of Iran had a very clear answer. "In Iran, we
live under sanctions from the US. As an Iranian you cannot do any business
with an American company. This may be good, it may be bad. But in any case,
the only way we can empower ourselves is FLOSS. This approach gives us the
necessary freedom. We have access to the best technology and it is
Free/Libre/Open and not restrictive. It does not put us in chains, we do
not need to wait till US decides about us. If only the Iranian government
would see it this way too!""
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Open Asia: Open source in Iran and Israel (NewsForge) Posted Sep 18, 2003 16:49 UTC (Thu) by bseufert (subscriber, #4534) [Link] This does not mean that FLOSS has an advantage in Iran because of the embargo. They just use pirated copies of the M$ Products. I was in Iran Just before XP was released in North America. My acquaintances there already had a pirated copy of Xp installed on their PC.
Open Asia: Open source in Iran and Israel (NewsForge) Posted Sep 25, 2003 10:13 UTC (Thu) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link] There's a difference between a hacked version of Windows and a free software OS that comes with support for Farsi out of the box. The latter has an advantage, no matter how prevelant pirate software is.
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