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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!europa.clark.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!malgudi.oar.net!news.csuohio.edu!usenet From: Michael Kondratov <m.kondratov@csu-e.csuohio.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux needs more work to be done! Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 00:41:53 -0400 Organization: Noosphere Ltd. Lines: 8 Message-ID: <33B5E791.6EABD1BE@csu-e.csuohio.edu> References: <5oqbad$1582@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> <xdopvt8sjip.fsf@bagel.rs.itd.umich.edu> <5p5j85$l1b$1@pizza.bucharest.roedu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: portc14.async.csuohio.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9702 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43714 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1293 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:64781 comp.os.linux.x:65344 comp.os.linux.setup:119004 comp.os.linux.advocacy:103683 Hehe.. yes, a lot of people start to use Linux in Russia. But there are two problems: first in Russia there is no such think as paying for software and the second there are not too many computer users yet.. not everyone can afford a PC. > |> that, as I noted you mentioning some OTHER strategic factors some > |> ago. There's also a fascination and respect angle, for me, at the > |> efforts of many, many volunteers. I could expect free OSs such as > |> linux to see a lot of exposure in places like Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.