<div dir="ltr">The same African curse. <div><br></div><div>You have a homegrown OS of International recognition, Ubuntu, for free, but you want to spend money to acquire another solution, developed in another country at a cost!<div>
<br></div><div>Simple, there is no money to be made if you recommend Ubuntu so you recommend that which will give you the 'cut'!</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand Delphi is a super platform and land language to start-off with, clean and teaches the art of programming quite elegantly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Kivuva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com" target="_blank">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That is a tragedy for South Africa. Locking to MS Office suite, and<br>
Windows for that matter is anti-competition and backwards. It's a<br>
shame for a country that produced the world renown Ubuntu Linux.<br>
<br>
For Delphi, it's not as bad since what we need is kids introduced to<br>
programming concepts. Pascal like code is very good for beginners for<br>
it's English like notation is less abstract. But the students should<br>
be able to branch out to more robust and modern languages. I wonder<br>
what computer language is predominant in Kenyan Secondary School<br>
certificate.<br>
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On 10/10/2013, Brian Ngure <<a href="mailto:brian.ngure@gmail.com">brian.ngure@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I just read this story on Slashdot. Link:<br>
> <a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/09/1648218/south-african-education-department-bans-free-and-open-source-software" target="_blank">http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/09/1648218/south-african-education-department-bans-free-and-open-source-software</a><br>
><br>
> One comment that caught my eye:<br>
> <a href="http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4319437&cid=45083711" target="_blank">http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4319437&cid=45083711</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:20 PM, John Kariuki <<br>
> <a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Here is an article talking about the South African department of<br>
>> education<br>
>> banning the use of Open Source software in schools.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.webaddict.co.za/2013/10/09/south-africa-education-department-bans-open-source-software/" target="_blank">http://www.webaddict.co.za/2013/10/09/south-africa-education-department-bans-open-source-software/</a><br>
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