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Re: Debian mirror in Palestine
- To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad(at-nospam)benyossef.com>
- Subject: Re: Debian mirror in Palestine
- From: Adi Stav <stav(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:55:28 +0200
- Cc: Ben-Nes Michael <miki(at-nospam)canaan.co.il>, ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- In-Reply-To: <3A704387.20105@benyossef.com>; from gilad@benyossef.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:17:27PM +0200
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:17:27PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>
>
> Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
>
> > This mirror will be a big use for Gaza and Jericho :P
>
> Don't laugh too hard. I have a nagging suspicion (but no real proofs)
> that the residents of the palestine authority and their ilks make much
> more use of Free Software, for obvious economical reasons, from the
> a typical Israeli user.
As much as the "free software helps the Third World" posts and stories
on kuro5hin warm my heart, I never thought they had much base in
reality. I think that when most poor people find MS-Windows too
expensive, they simply share it, caring about neither ideology nor
copyright law :)
- Adi Stav
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