[clue-talk] Africa will not use Linux....

[Matt Gushee]

Kevin Cullis wrote:

> because it's too unsecure.
> 
> See here for more info
> 
> http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/aug05/0805ahac.html
> 
> How does this stack up with most people's thoughts?

Interesting. But who can say what Africa will or will not do, since it's 
a large and incredibly diverse continent? And it seems to me I have 
heard that many Africans are in fact turning to Linux, though I can't 
recall any specifics.

I won't comment extensively on Chinery-Hesse's criticisms of Linux--not 
knowing all that much about where he lives, I can only judge his logic 
at a superficial level, and I'm sure you all can do the same. But his 
statement that

     if we went for open-source, we would be relegated to basically doing
     installation and training,

sounds to me much more like rationalization than rationality. Why can't 
Ghanaians be open-source or Linux developers just as well as anyone else?

--
Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA