Hacker Châu Phi

IEEE Spectrum có một câu chuyện truyền cảm về chủ một công ty phần mềm ở Ghana, Châu Phi. Nhiều chi tiết rất thú vị và đáng học tập:

• "Saviors" are common in Africa, and they usually come in the form of demagogues or rebel leaders, missionaries or medical doctors, peacekeepers or refugee-camp managers. Rarely are they Birkenstock-wearing engineers or software programmers. That's why Chinery-Hesse is worth getting to know. Because if Africa has a sunny future, Chinery-Hesse will be a part of it.
• And to combat the rampant piracy, beta versions of software rarely leave Soft's premises, finished products don't have an autoinstall function (you need a Soft technician to launch them), and batches of bug fixes are often delivered individually to customers rather than generally released.
• Linux is simply impractical for his purposes. "It can't be used for serious business," he says, because it would be too easy for employees of a business to learn to use—and abuse—the source code of essential programs.
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