Break Free From Limited Thinking

Just read this example of how Microsoft and it’s Representatives are using manipulation to explain why Microsoft was the way to go, taken as it is from Christopher Dawson’s blog

Tectonic reported yesterday on Microsoft director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow’s statements during an April outreach trip to South Africa. Mr. Matusow, though not completely off-base in his assessment of the potential for significant costs associated with open source software development and support, put his foot in his mouth when he noted that

“Deep dev of the core OS” was not likely to happen in South Africa where students were “still grappling with coding skills”, says Matusow. They are “not going to dive into the inner workings of Linux”

Where was it that Mark Shuttleworth was from again? Oh, that’s right, South Africa. There’s this other silly little OS called OS X. It’s loosely based on FreeBSD (a pretty slick OS in its own right), also developed by a South African named Theo de Raadt. Oops.

Sure enough they both grew up in the west but to say that students in South-Africa can’t cope with open code?