Journal eltoyoboyo's Journal: Favorite apps in Egypt
The slashdot community wanted to get excited about a Linux Installfest in Egypt.
Egyptian Linux Advocates' Replies was a response to Ask the Egyptian Installfest Organizers
The response to "What is the killer app?" was: "that must be IM, probably MSN followed by Yahoo Messenger and ICQ "
The response to "what is the most widely used distro in that part of the world? " was: "you're kidding right?? of course windows is as big, its probably even bigger, the most widespread OS is probably windows 98, then comes WindowsXP, and then windows 2000, you get my drift?? most of it is illegal copies of course. "
I also detected some humor in a response to one question. Alaa Abd El Fatah, Responding to a question about a lack of women, "only word I have for you is "Ya Moftary" I don't know how to translate this, literally it means you despot, but actually it is used when someone makes a very clearly unfounded claim or accusation" .
Slashdot and its sister site, comp.os.linux.advocacy, ended up with the exact opposite response they were hoping to get: Microsoft OS's are used everywhere and Egyptians want to run Windows-based apps.
"Ya Moftary" is now my new favorite expression
The response to "What is the killer app?" was: "that must be IM, probably MSN followed by Yahoo Messenger and ICQ "
The response to "what is the most widely used distro in that part of the world? " was: "you're kidding right?? of course windows is as big, its probably even bigger, the most widespread OS is probably windows 98, then comes WindowsXP, and then windows 2000, you get my drift?? most of it is illegal copies of course. "
I also detected some humor in a response to one question. Alaa Abd El Fatah, Responding to a question about a lack of women, "only word I have for you is "Ya Moftary" I don't know how to translate this, literally it means you despot, but actually it is used when someone makes a very clearly unfounded claim or accusation" .
Slashdot and its sister site, comp.os.linux.advocacy, ended up with the exact opposite response they were hoping to get: Microsoft OS's are used everywhere and Egyptians want to run Windows-based apps.
"Ya Moftary" is now my new favorite expression
