They used the f-word wrongly
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| AnonymousCoward Oct 17, 2005 5:24 PM EDT |
On one hand, Microsoft give little-f free copies of MS-Windows to random Africans, on the other, they apparently don't need little-f free software? That's just dumb. In the words of Forrest Gump, "I don't get it." Africans are not dumb. If anything, they're far less complacent than a typical Westerner. I think Microsoft are very fortunate that so few of them have computers yet, else they'd be facing a tidal wave of what amounted to raucous laughter, even if much of it was posted in, for example, dialects from Northern Zambia. |
| TxtEdMacs Oct 18, 2005 7:13 AM EDT |
Quoting:Africans are not dumb. If anything, they're far less complacent than a typical Westerner. And here is a link and another quote to prove your assertion: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/10/17/africa.goes.cellula... Quoting: ... Air minutes have even become a form of currency, transactable from phone to phone by text message, he says. Could one say: Q.E.D.? |
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