Re: [expert] South Africa takes the plunge...

2002-02-07 Thread Michel Clasquin

On Thursday 07 February 2002 02:58, Sevatio wrote:
 Kudos!

 On Wednesday 06 February 2002 01:59pm, you wrote:
  Thought this might make some people smile:
  http://www.naci.org.za/docs/opensource.html

disclaimer: it is a submission to a parliamentary committee. But it is a 
long way from becoming law yet.

One important unmentioned factor may be that Apple's market share is 
negligible in this country (given current exchange rates, I can buy TWO 
Athlon systems from the local mom 'n pop store for the price of an iMac), 
which gives Microsoft a 99.99% monopoly. 

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[expert] South Africa takes the plunge...

2002-02-06 Thread Brendan

Thought this might make some people smile:
http://www.naci.org.za/docs/opensource.html

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Re: [expert] South Africa takes the plunge...

2002-02-06 Thread Sevatio

Kudos!

On Wednesday 06 February 2002 01:59pm, you wrote:
 Thought this might make some people smile:
 http://www.naci.org.za/docs/opensource.html

 --
 Brendan
 Linux-Mandrake 8.1/WinXP
 Running on:
 http://www.endosquid.com/direct/bmcompspecs.htm


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