From the Arab News
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The US Army is the single largest user of “Red Hat.”
Malaysia in 2010 switched 703 of its 724 government agencies to Linux. The chief secretary of the Malaysian government justified the switch as follows: “the general acceptance of its promise of better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility and lower cost”.
The Turkish Government has created its own Linux distribution called “Pardus,”
as has Cuba, whose distribution is named “Nova.”
Iceland announced in 2012 that it will switch to open source software in public institutions. All schools in Iceland have already switched to Ubuntu from Windows.
Brazil has 35 million students in over 50,000 schools using over half a million PC’s all running on Linux.
Russia announced in 2007 that all its school computers would run on Linux.
The list goes on, and on.
As a poor country Pakistan cannot afford proprietary software.
In Linux we now have a powerful, globally accepted, and free alternative. We also have a large pool of talented young software engineers and programmers.
Our government needs to put them to work in making Linux the preferred OS in every PC in every classroom and office in the country.
The savings to Pakistan on licensing fees will be several hundred million dollars per year. Why should we, the poor, continue to enrich the Microsofts and Apples of the world when there is absolutely no need to do so?
The above kinda puts into perspective
that the elite media obsessing on the latest violence outside the U.S.
and the latest breathlessness about the royal baby
completely passes by the reality that..... most people are just quietly getting on with their lives and couldn 't give a fig about the U.S. elite media's prattlings.
http://www.arabnews.com/news/459935
woodsmoke
WHAT do the International Space Station,
the Czech Post Office,
the French Parliament and the Turkish government have in common?
All have switched from using a proprietary Operating System (OS) on their computers to an “open source” or free OS; or putting it simply: They have switched from Windows to a free OS called Linux. And they are not alone. A growing number of businesses, educational and scientific institutions, schools and governments are doing likewise.
Why are they doing it?
And what has all this got to do with Pakistan?
the Czech Post Office,
the French Parliament and the Turkish government have in common?
All have switched from using a proprietary Operating System (OS) on their computers to an “open source” or free OS; or putting it simply: They have switched from Windows to a free OS called Linux. And they are not alone. A growing number of businesses, educational and scientific institutions, schools and governments are doing likewise.
Why are they doing it?
And what has all this got to do with Pakistan?
The US Army is the single largest user of “Red Hat.”
Malaysia in 2010 switched 703 of its 724 government agencies to Linux. The chief secretary of the Malaysian government justified the switch as follows: “the general acceptance of its promise of better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility and lower cost”.
The Turkish Government has created its own Linux distribution called “Pardus,”
as has Cuba, whose distribution is named “Nova.”
Iceland announced in 2012 that it will switch to open source software in public institutions. All schools in Iceland have already switched to Ubuntu from Windows.
Brazil has 35 million students in over 50,000 schools using over half a million PC’s all running on Linux.
Russia announced in 2007 that all its school computers would run on Linux.
The list goes on, and on.
As a poor country Pakistan cannot afford proprietary software.
In Linux we now have a powerful, globally accepted, and free alternative. We also have a large pool of talented young software engineers and programmers.
Our government needs to put them to work in making Linux the preferred OS in every PC in every classroom and office in the country.
The savings to Pakistan on licensing fees will be several hundred million dollars per year. Why should we, the poor, continue to enrich the Microsofts and Apples of the world when there is absolutely no need to do so?
The above kinda puts into perspective
that the elite media obsessing on the latest violence outside the U.S.
and the latest breathlessness about the royal baby
completely passes by the reality that..... most people are just quietly getting on with their lives and couldn 't give a fig about the U.S. elite media's prattlings.
http://www.arabnews.com/news/459935
woodsmoke
But you make a point that deserves commentary:
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