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The Wall Street Journal: You Say You Want a Revolution
Oct 6, 2006, 15 :00 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (6186 reads)

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"On the top floor of an otherwise nondescript shopping mall in south Jakarta, a little revolution is taking root.

"Perched between a meatball-soup stall and a department store stands a modest Internet café called SoNet, indistinguishable from others that dot the Indonesian capital. It's only if you step up to one of the 11 computer screens that you might notice their desktop software looks a bit different: It's not Microsoft Windows, although it looks a lot like it, with its start menus, buttons and windows. And it's not Apple, although with its color palette and uncluttered screen perhaps it could be. It's something called Ubuntu.."

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This statement:So is it good enough for  ...   strange   
jd
Oct 6, 2006, 16:37:56
 
I would disagree with the Wall Street Jo ...   I think...   
Lou
Oct 6, 2006, 16:56:57
 
It's nice the WSJ woke up an smelled ...   Well the WSJ woke up, drunk.   
Spanky
Oct 6, 2006, 17:10:16
 
Exactly my thoughts.  Any power user tha ...   Re: strange   
Gerry Tool
Oct 6, 2006, 17:52:34
 
I think you all misread what the author  ...   Missing the point   
Tony OBryan
Oct 6, 2006, 20:55:35
 
I think the point is, it's BOTH. Kub ...   Re: Missing the point   
Spanky
Oct 6, 2006, 21:23:00
 
> This statement:> So is it good enough  ...   Re: strange   
philc
Oct 9, 2006, 17:52:58
 
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