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Followup with the LUG Of Iraq (Linux Journal)
Here's a Linux Journal article looking at the software situation in Iraq.
"As Ashraf told me, Iraq is now a blank, unformatted hard disk and can be loaded with anything. Everything is open in Iraq right now. There are no regimented standards or massive expenditure in a particular monopoly's software. Now is the time to convince Iraqis--government, business, and users--that linux will meet their needs better than proprietary software."
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Followup with the LUG Of Iraq (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 17, 2003 23:18 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] If anyone in the United States Cabinet had ever been employed by a software supplier, we would have had an announcement on this subject by now.
Followup with the LUG Of Iraq (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 18, 2003 0:00 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link] Amusingly enough, a friend of mine just got a recuiter email from someone looking to hire A+hardware techs to repair PC's in Baghdad. $110K a year. I guess that'll buy the body armor and helmet and pay the ammo bills, eh?
Followup with the LUG Of Iraq (Linux Journal) Posted Dec 18, 2003 22:29 UTC (Thu) by gswoods (subscriber, #37) [Link] If I were an Iraqi, the very *last* thing I would want is to be tied to a large American software firm. This should be a fertile ground for Linux coming from non-US distributors.
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