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Story: Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software

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Posted by: Dr. T. (Thursday 20 October 2005, 9:50 AM)

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Africa does not need free software- AFRICA does not need free software. Africa, a continent ten times larger than China but inhabited by fewer people than China. Africa, where it is easier to catch AIDS than anywhere else and if you survive that, your country will be in a civil war, on time, next week, same time, same channel and you can watch yourself get blown to bits on CNN IF there is a television in your neighborhood and if the latest corrupt, angry, greedy, politician has not stolen it from you!!! Africa, the playground for misguided super corporations selling contaminated baby formula to unknowing African mothers. Africa, the source, 'free' source of outsourced Black toil, misery, and eternal denigration that propelled every white, western, culture on earth to economic excellence or some degree of prosperity, does NOT need free software!?! A continent perpetually in need of rescue by UN Peacekeepers, the centers for disease control from around the world, and, or every UN aid group imaginable. Every other nation on earth would need 10-on-the-richter-scale earthquakes every minute for twenty years to be in as bad a shape as pillaged and raped Africa is in right now.
Hey, you are right,they do not need free software -ONLY! They need what they have earned from white societies around the world -REPARATIONS!
During the Black Diaspora, twenty MILLION blacks lived, twenty MILLION died. Can you even imagine what the white world would say to such a mass slaughter of white flesh? Oh I know, my bad, they would say, "America, Europe, Australia, Russia, Greenland, Iceland, Canada, DO NOT NEED FREE SOFTWARE! But, they do need Morbius to come and rescue their collective rear-ends from The Microsnot Matrix-the machine gods they built when they finished letting Microsoft sell them the party line on where creativity should begin and end: I mean, where do you think Ubuntu Linux comes from anyway!
Take the bill pill and go back to your doggone cubicle!

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  15. Microsoft should keep their corporate rant out of... Adam Brown
  16. What absolute nonsense. I'm a South African living... Henry
  17. Fucking Stupid statement by Microshaft. I'm p... Avender
  18. Africa does not need free software- AFRICA does no... Dr. T.
  19. Microsoft is arrogant, and they're about to begin... Anonymous
  20. Bullshit! I live in Africa,I've taught IT in Afric... Reme Verster
  21. Welcome to Microsloth Windoze.... the world's... M. Storm
  22. Africa is vast. There are so many areas that are n... Epa Mella
  23. MS people are very stupid. One thing is what they... LuisCipher
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  25. Great idea. Racism aside, by the time MS considers... A. Lizard
  26. Hmmm Shall I eat or shall I buy the latest upgrade... Anonymous
  27. *laughs cynically* It's more like this, "train peo... Anonymous
  28. To this stupid declaration I just say: Viva Mark S... Jean Ferri
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  31. Microsft is terribly wrong fo thinking that Africa... Juma
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