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

[Kevin Cullis]

Matt,

The one thing that did bother me about what he was saying was because of 
  FOSS it would be easy for someone to alter the code to change the 
accounting methods and therefore the money taken or given out. The real 
question is what kind of security can FOSS provide in this type of 
environment?

Kevin

Matt Gushee wrote:
> 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?
> 

> 
>     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?
> 
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