Stallman Convinces Cuba to Switch to Open Source

prostoalex writes "It's a big victory for Richard Stallman in North America, as Cuba decided to adopt open source software on the national level. Both Cuba and Venezuela are currently working on switching the entire government infrastructure to GNU/Linux operating system and applications, the Associated Press reports from Havana: 'Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system, which is developed by a global community of programmers who freely share their code.' The AP article doesn't mention the distro used for government workers, but says that the students are working on a Gentoo-based distro."

Apologies in advance..

[solevita]

In communist Cuba, Stallman switches you!

Since when was Cuba in 'North America'?

[Anonymous Coward]

"It's a big victory for Richard Stallman in North America"

Oh really? and a pretty bad day for geography!

Re:An Old Canard . . .

[UbuntuDupe]

I wonder how RMS is going to spin this victory to his States-side detractors?

He could say, "Wait a minute ... Microsoft replaced 'My Computer' with 'Computer' and 'My Documents' with 'Documents' ... and Gates says it's open source that's communist?"

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Re:An Old Canard . . .

[Teresita]

Reminds me of the picture that says something along the lines of "When you pirate music you help communism."

Gosh, maybe Stallman is pitching GNU/Linux to Osama bin Laden in his cave right now, and we can bring the War on Terror into this.

Re:An Old Canard . . .

[Rydia]

Of course it is. Friend Computer would never consort with evil mutant commie traitors. To think otherwise would be the height of treason.

Re:Corrected Headline:

[WED Fan]

Commie Convinces Other Commies to Go With Commie Software D U H!!!! Well, this should totally kill their economy. One bad idea for another. But, I bet you the medical equipment hooked up to ol' Fidel is still run by Closed Sourced Commericial God Bless America Money Making Software.

You're going to Hell

Wait, that's a religious concept and we know all religious people are conservatives and therefor wrong. Thus, God does not exist because He is a Republican concept, and George Bush is a Republican, so since the nation has voted the Republican's out of power in the congress, God no longer rules, and Hell has been repealed. So, when Fidel dies (hoping that we have some sort of software switch the CIA can throw on the Closed-Sourced-Commericial-God-Bless-America-Money -Making-Software controlling his life-support equipment) he will not go to Hell, he'll go to Berkely, which has their own version of Hell, People's Park which is worse than Hell, even Satan wouldn't hang out there. But, Berkley is liberal, and have a version Hell, that must mean Religion exists, and God is back. Whew, and for a second there, I thought the Universe was going to wink out of existance.

Now, why the Hell is this discussion on Slashdot?

Oh, right! Commies!

Run, everyone, the Commies are coming, God help us, the Commies are coming!

Re:Since the Triassic Period

[Rakshasa Taisab]

That's just plain wrong...

'North America' is the two countries north of America; Canada and Alaska. Cuba is _south_ of America, so obviously it is in 'South America'.

Re:Stallman shouldn't be dealing with thugs

[miletus]

Oh, I didn't know the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba uses Linux.

Re:Since when was Cuba in 'North America'?

[navyjeff]

wikipedia seems to disagree with you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America/ [wikipedia.org]

Don't worry: we'll have it fixed in a jiffy!

The number of Cubas in North America have tripled in the past six months...

Re:An Old Canard . . .

[dbIII]

The attitude of US adminstations to Cuba has been somewhat childish for a very long time. It was lost through a reaction to maladministration, organised crime and corruption and wasn't under US government control at the time anyway. It is another country now even if you had a war with Spain over it a long time ago - live with it and have cheaper cigars instead of smuggled ones that even end up in intimate places in the oval office.