Comments on: Cablegate: “42 Percent of Argentine Firms Use Linux on at Least Some of Their Computers”

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Clearly you have no idea. Why do you try to start flame wars here?

By: mcinsand

mcinsand — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:38:42 +0000

Something in this article knocked a few cobwebs loose, and this might be semi-off-topic. In 2003, however, Sam’s Club in the US was offering really inexpensive desktop computers with Debian preloaded. These quietly disappeared, though, a year or so later when I was finally disgusted enough with XP to make the jump. Anyone know anything about those offerings?

By: NotZed

NotZed — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:14:28 +0000

He’s saying something, but your demonstrated lack of ability to comprehend the written English language is simply letting you down. Again.

I would feel sorry for you …

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:32:19 +0000

A lot of FOSS use is understated because the English-speaking media stops covering regions and activities once they go FOSS.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:32:23 +0000

“A 2009 survey in Italy showed that OpenOffice.org usage in the country is 50% among companies, with GNU/Linux at 63%. ”

Wait: are you saying OO.o was found to be used as much as MS Office or just used *some* in half the organizations? And are you saying Linux is used on the desktop 63% of the time or that it is used *some* in that percent of businesses.

I suspect the lower but you portray it as if it was the higher.