Dear Colleagues, This is a great topic and timely.
I should agree with Ed's splendid analysis. I know a number of people who have both open source and proprietary software on computers and laptops and use it depending on what they need to do and how effectively a job can get done. A number of telecentres in Africa do that too. Meddie On 10/14/05, Edmond Gaible wrote: > Let's assume that per Dr. Heeks' analysis we have yet to see significant > direct economic benefit to developing countries from open source. Should > we then advocate exclusive use of proprietary software? Or should we > perhaps adopt the position prevalent among the private sector's tech > giants such as IBM and HP? That there will be some applications, some > jobs, for which open-source is the appropriate answer, and others for > which it is not. ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
