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Re: Debian mirror in Palestine
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- Subject: Re: Debian mirror in Palestine
- From: Alex Shnitman <alexsh(at-nospam)hectic.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:30:55 +0200
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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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Hi, Gilad!
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:17:27PM +0200, you wrote the following:
> > 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.
I doubt very much that our Palestinian friends care more than we do
about copyright laws and the legality of software they use, and I
don't really see a sharp rise in Linux usage in Israel because Windows
is too expensive to buy.
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