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Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback It is often said that many of the major problems in Nigeria are not facilitated by external factors, but Nigerians who cannot see truth even when it stares them in the face. Evidence for this abounds - a legislature that pays lip service to labour...
[October 24, 2005, 13:50]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Fact is Africa needs Free and Opens Source Software cos that is the only way Africa will hasten its development of ICT. Whoever says free and opens sosurce software is not good for Africa is ideologically bankrupt.
[October 24, 2005, 9:21]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Coming from the biggest software company in the world, a comment such as they make is surprisingly racistic and generalist. It is not expertise in the use of Microsoft Office which is required, but the wholistic knowledge in the use of the wide...
[October 20, 2005, 8:41]
Microsoft offers free software as licence-check reward
Talkback If Microsoft didn't charge so much for their OS, piracy wouldn't be a problem. Even the OEM version for XP is $90, for the crappiest OS I have ever used. When I was building my machine I initially didn't have enough money for WIndows, and had to...
[November 1, 2004, 20:05]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback If you are going to introduce computers to someone it is better for them to start out with something that is stable & secure than with MS crap.
[October 18, 2005, 13:56]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Welcome to Microsloth Windoze.the world's most successfully deployed virus. A parasitic program written intentionally to enter a computer without the users permission and/or knowledge. Though some virus's do little but replicate others can cause...
[October 22, 2005, 15:47]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback This is exactly analogous to the ploy that MS is pulling in the US. Give schools access to $800 copies of VisualStudio, let them teach it to the young developers, and wait for the money to roll in once the young developers graduate.
[October 21, 2005, 23:06]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Another piece of FUD from M$. At the point using open source is way easier than M$ tools. Anybody can use the environment he needs to work in - be it command line, simple GUI or advanced feature-rich integrated desktop.
[October 20, 2005, 8:48]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback With all the pirating of software going on and the lack of copyright laws, or lack of enforcement of copyright laws, why should we pay a dime to M$? Of course cost is not an issue!
[January 24, 2006, 14:43]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback A typical open source workstation: Linux + Open office + heaps of free software that will meet 95% of users requirements = FREE. For M$ it's not just the cost of the operating system, it comes with the hidden cost of pricy antivirus and support...
[October 20, 2005, 9:04]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Buy all the software that don't come with it. We should invest in their product, because all other products, while being free (i.e.nix), the "costs" involved in the long run make it more expensive. Africa does not want Microsoft!
[October 21, 2005, 13:38]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback To this stupid declaration I just say: Viva Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu Linux!
[October 21, 2005, 13:21]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Its not un who is gonna decide wich software africa will have its the african and no other! one question to microsoft.wich would you use? a ware who is expensive and almost useless and need uppgrades who makes the whole thing worse+ slowing down...
[November 28, 2005, 2:22]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback *laughs cynically* It's more like this, "train people to use Microsoft products thus creating more potential money for them later on. Of course while this is intelligent (? of MS it doesn't really create many opportunities for the countries involved.
[October 21, 2005, 3:45]
Microsoft launches free robotics software
News The software is free for hobbyists or researchers, but companies aiming to profit from its use must license a commercial version for $399 (£202.76). The technology, called Microsoft Robotics Studio, is Windows-based software platform designed to...
[December 13, 2006, 8:10]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Cost of software is ALWAYS a factor. What absolute nonsense. I'm a South African living and working in South Africa. Microsoft either has their collective heads up their collective anuses, or they're deliberately FUDing.
[October 20, 2005, 9:16]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Hmmm Shall I eat or shall I buy the latest upgrade of M$.
[October 21, 2005, 1:41]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Microsoft is arrogant, and they're about to begin paying for that arrogance. Many people I know will join me in doing our part to punish them with our pocket books.
[October 20, 2005, 9:59]
Open source software may be free, but there's still money involved
Blog Comment Uhm when you put it like that then what becomes of the overall goal what lies ahead is it good? or is it bad? if big corporations can now just directly influence the outcome of the final product by means of controlling more heads than others within...
[August 22, 2009, 21:28]
3Com offers free V.90 software upgrade
News The upgrade is available free of charge for modems that currently use 3Com's proprietary x2 technology, including native x2 modems and 33.6K units that have been upgraded to x2. Users of 33.6K modems or lower can upgrade to the standard for $60.
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