Cynical Prediction
Salon has a brief article about a proposed bill (translation, and lots of flaming, on slashdot) which would require the government of Argentina to use free software at the provincial and national level. I’d link to the salon article but it’s “premium content”. It is an OK article, not great, but it concerns an issue which I’ve been following with some interest for a couple years. And now I want to make a public prediction: Microsoft is finna donate a whole buttload of their software, and probably some machines as well, to Argentina sometime soon. Most likely to their schools. “Get ’em while they’re young!”
I don’t really want to get into advocacy about the issue right now – other people have already done a good job with it, and really my comparative advantage lies in sciolistic divagations about etymology. But, Steve Martin’s brother’s advice in “The Jerk” seems to apply here – my best attempt at Argentinification would be “
May 8th, 2003 at 11:15 am
Oh, Jesse, you are too much. “…really my comparative advantage lies in sciolistic divagations about etymology.” Eh heh heh.
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