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No Surprise Here: Cuba Loves Open Source

Cuba is giving Microsoft the heave-ho and moving as fast as humanly possible (or as fast as a slow-moving communist government can) toward open source. Besides thumbing its nose at the capitalist Microsoft, Fidel apparently believes that Microsoft products present a real security threat, that somehow Redmond is in cahoots with the U.S. to spy on Cuba through secret software hooks.

Posted by Doug Barney on February 27, 2007


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