Cuba Declares War on Windows

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"I doubt "Nova" will be any good, but it can't be worse than Windows."

again the Windows' basher. seriously, windows only get so damn much complains because it does so damn much on so damn many (hereafter SDM) different machines running SDM softwares across SDM different hardwares used by SDM people across SDM intelligent levels.... whew

that said, of course there will be a lot of problems and could use improvements, but let's see someone else do better
 
Ok so how good is Linux will it ever be as good or better then windows
I dont know that much about Linux and Windows 7 is comeing out soon
Is it a good Gamers OS and if it is worth a try what version woud be the better one

Gazz
 
Overall I like SUSE Linux as my OS of choice. It's not perfect, but no OS is in my opinion. I still have to stick with windows for the games ^_^. It's funny that right now my most stable install is XP and it's what I use to backup and restore my Linux and Vista partitions.
 
well, no windows, that will set them back ....EVEN FURTHER!

people always complaining about windows and bugs: they tried writing an open source os, IT FAILED.
 
"We are trying to add confusion as a new tactic to alienate our people. Hopefully when all is said and done that not a single citizen will even want to use a computer. That should ensure that our reign will continue until the next revolution."
 
I think this is a really cool thing for a government to do, in light of the goals that castro puts forward. As an american, i am against anything restricting freedoms of the people; this could be interpreted as disliking banning an OS or as hating the lack of freedom and flexibility that Windows offers. I personally feel that people should be allowed to choose their OS, but migrating the government over to Open Source goes so perfectly with socialist ideals that I cant help but get a huge grin when I think about it. I read that venezuela is doing the same thing; Viva la revolucion!
 
[citation][nom]p05esto[/nom]Cuba who? Can't we just accidentially nuke them, make it an accident or something, who would complain?[/citation]

I think they also fail to realize that Linux was originally designed by American "hippies" so unless they completely build the kernal from scratch there will be a tiny piece of America on every computer.

Take that Castro, you cigar loving thick bearded man you.
 
[citation][nom]falchard[/nom]>_> Linux is also a US created OS.[/citation]
Not really. Parts of the GNU project are made and maintained by Americans, but other parts aren't, and the original Linux kernel was written by a Finn, in Finland no less! Then you have those international distributions created in places like Brazil, South Africa (Ubuntu), Italy, China, etc. Contribution to the larger distributions is usually pretty international, regardless of their place of origin.
So really, Linux is a higgledy-piggledy hodge-podge of national origins, which kind of explains a lot about it.

And, oh boy! YAC-Dist! (Yet Another Communist Distro)
 
many comments on this thread evidence a lamentable lack of knowledge. cuba uses windows predominately, despite the fact that it is illegal for cuba to buy windows, and it cannot obtain software--even free applets--on the web from u.s. sources b/c it is blocked. the u.s. by law maintains a blockade dedicated to strangling cuba economically. cuba has no reason to depend on an OS made in USA when the u.s. govt regularly intervenes in communications and forces IT companies to cooperate in its foreign and domestic policy and spying. cubans like people from the u.s. and invite them to visit, but that is illegal under u.s. law. cuba buys u.s. agricultural products as an exception to the blockade and would buy many more things if it were not illegal for u.s. companies to sell. it has invited u.s. oil companies for joint ventures in developing its oil industry, but that is forbidden by u.s. law. cuba has two universities dedicated to IT and has many fine programmers in all the languages used here. and they develop educational and medical and operational and communications software and yes, video games also.
 
Folks.. it's about choice. If the Cubans want to switch their OS to Linux then so be it.

Let's face it dealing Microsoft licensing issues is one royal pain in the ass. You need a license for Windows, Office, Exchange, Server and not to mention CALs to each of those servers such as Active Directory!!

How many times you have to fumble through your collection of CDs to find the stupid Office license key just to reinstall it or add/remove pieces of it?!?! Plenty.

If Microsoft so damn DRM happy with their products they might as well provide us with a dongle to register our hardware and every licensed Microsoft software is tied to that dongle for your PC! Meaning you just enter the license key ONCE and it's done. You can reinstall Office 2007 a million times and won't ask for the key because the dongle already registered that license key to the particular PC you own. This works well until your PC dies. Then you'll have to call up Microsoft to say the PC is dead and want to transfer the licenses to the new PC with the existing dongle. Should be simple enough to do.

Ah well. Biggest thing I like using Ubuntu is not to deal with that kind of DRM licensing crap. I just want to install Open Office 3 a million times without question.
 
Exactly right,

One of the best part of "free software" is the freedom from DRM. So many time I want to do things that are difficult, if not impossible, just because I have to go through a long sequence of cliking the OK button to satisfy some licence ageement that I spent a significant amount of money on.
 
"Shown at a Havana conference dedicated to "technological sovereignty", the goal is to have Nova replace Windows on computers all across the island."

all 3 of them ?
 
[citation][nom]Darkk[/nom]Folks.. it's about choice. If the Cubans want to switch their OS to Linux then so be it. [/citation]

"the Cuban government has banned the software "

so,
where exactly is the choice?
 
[citation][nom]SAL-e[/nom]How sad is this article. I have no sympathy for communist leaders in Cuba, but why the heck Tomshardware.com publish propaganda ?! The best policy is to ignore it. What ever the problem in Cuba is, it's not going to be solved by Linux or any other OS.[/citation]

I'm actually a bit disgusted by the comments I read here. Castro is known as a hero in his nation. He refuses to be pushed around and "bought out" by America. His country is doing much better than many countries that allow us to come in, buy up property, and take control. Nuke them? Come on.

Castro is doing what a lot of other nations should do. Kick out the "democratic" U.S. and live a life free of "democratic" foriegn control.
 
[citation][nom]tenor77[/nom]Umm sure okay if you say so. Let me give you some of my "Free" software. I promise I didn't give myself backdoor access to your network.In related news MS anticpates a drop in pirated copies of Windows. Folks US companies cannot sell to Cuba so they were getting this through other means so I'm not sure why this would be a big deal other than showing a trend for Linux and to show how little freedom some people still have in the world when they can't even choose for themselves what OS they use.[/citation]

Castro has little to do with taking away freedom and more to do with fighting the U.S. from taking control of his nation like we have done to so many. Watch Zeitgeist Appendum please. It can be found here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197
 
Castro enforcing linux? Now if that's not a good reason for the rest of the world to stick with windows I don't know what is! In his career he hasn't done a single thing right (that I know of). I therefore must conclude that if he uses linux, the right chouce must've been windows.

Anyway, see ya next week when we read that castro has banned the old still running american made cars, because he just read on his firefox that general motors is still producing cars.
 
[citation][nom]jonnydough[/nom]I'm actually a bit disgusted by the comments I read here. Castro is known as a hero in his nation. He refuses to be pushed around and "bought out" by America. His country is doing much better than many countries that allow us to come in, buy up property, and take control. Nuke them? Come on.Castro is doing what a lot of other nations should do. Kick out the "democratic" U.S. and live a life free of "democratic" foriegn control.[/citation]

You must know no Cubans at all. Having lived in South Florida almost my entire life I have seen Cubans get in brawls over people defending Castro. And the funny thing about that is the ONLY people EVER defending Castro are people like you, a white, most likely, liberal guy who has never met a Cuban and has never been to Cuba. And btw, I like how you keep putting democratic in "" like it makes your point any more logical. Keeping Cuba free from "democratic" foreign control? Im sure you would be surprised to know that Russia, China and Venezuela are the only reason the Cuba is not an entirely deserted island right now. They could actually pour even more money into Cuba and make it truly the paradise it was meant to be. But they dont give a crap about Cuba or Cubans, just like you, but they will support Cuba as long as they are fighting the "democratic" US foreign control, just like you.
 
MS 's pockets might be as deep or even deeper then the whole island of cuba together!
 
I only have a few words "USA embargo against Cuba", and what is the big deal about communism(Cuba is closer to socialism)? Haven't you heard about the recession that is going on? In my opinion it is nice to know that you have a home to return to or something to eat as long as you work, is it how it works here???
 
- True: most people defending Castro are WASPs who never lived outside of the US.
- True: America is not perfect.
- True: no OS is perfect.
... but Mac OS X comes pretty damn close, doesn't it? Made in Cupertino, CA, USA - good enough for me.
 
I'm sorry Johnny, but I'm going to invoke my rule of thumb here: Anytime someone uses Zeitgeist as a source, you can probably ignore what they're ranting about and not miss anything important.
Find something to cite that isn't fact-twisting crap, please.
 
The people of cuba are sheep.Untill they take back their country there is nothing We can do to help them.Although massive airdrops of guns and copys of windows 7 would be interesting.
And please,if the CIA cant hack linux they all should be fired.
 
[citation][nom]Lumpy[/nom]The people of cuba are sheep.Untill they take back their country there is nothing We can do to help them.Although massive airdrops of guns and copys of windows 7 would be interesting.And please,if the CIA cant hack linux they all should be fired.[/citation]

They can't take back their country. This is what people don't understand, the "people" would kill the government, sure, but then what? The WHOLE system, economy is weaved to work with their current system.. things would go seriously downhill before going back up, if it does.
 
I like Cuba

and I especially like their good sense about computing realities ...
 
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