LMAO:
Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux computer operating system this week in the latest front of the communist island’s battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony.
The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana computer conference on “technological sovereignty” and is central to the Cuban government’s desire to replace the Microsoft software running most of the island’s computers. [...]
According to Hector Rodriguez, dean of the School of Free Software at Cuba’s University of Information Sciences, about 20 percent of computers in Cuba, where computer sales to the public began only last year, are currently using Linux.
Nova is Cuba’s own configuration of Linux and bundles various applications of the operating system.
Rodriguez said several government ministries and the Cuban university system have made the switch to Linux but there has been resistance from government companies concerned about its compatibility with their specialized applications.
A switch to a free, open-source OS — entirely planned and initiated by central government. Somebody is smokin’ some serious killer there if they don’t see the contradiction involved. What’s next, the Vatican gonna start running a hardcore porn site?
I can’t help but wonder how people who’ve only been allowed to buy computers in the past year are going to manage w/ figuring out Linux. Oughta be some interesting headaches on that front, pity they probably can’t record the reactions & put them on YouTube…
