Topic: Africa needs free software, not slick marketing talk
radiorahim
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 2777
posted 22 October 2005 04:15 AM
quote: Earlier this week Microsoft's Nigerian representatives claimed that even if Africans were given open source software they wouldn't know what to do with it. In an article published by ZDNet the company's representatives said Africans lacked the "expertise" to use open source software.
Such outrageous claims can not be allowed to go without a response.