[00:00] <grtcdr> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction
[00:00] <elacheche[m]> Life took all of us away.. 
[00:00] <elacheche[m]> There is CLL FST too if you know people in FST.. 
[00:01] <grtcdr> I don't :/
[00:04] <grtcdr> It's pretty nice to see people pushing open source though; the government doesn't seem to appreciate it all that much.
[00:05] <grtcdr> by it I mean FOSS, not individuals pushing FOSS.
[00:06] <elacheche[m]> Politics is complicated.. 
[00:08] <grtcdr> It might be, but complexity should never be an excuse, at least not for elected officials. They sorta get paid to make good decisions on behalf of the people.
[00:10] <elacheche[m]> You don't get the point :) 
[00:10] <grtcdr> Anyhow, I got into Ruby yesterday, and wrote a very simple tool to help me clean my $(pwd) whenever it gets too messy.
[00:10] <grtcdr> Ruby is unsurprisingly a very nice language to work with <3
[00:11] <elacheche[m]> https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06TUNIS2424_a.html
[00:11] <elacheche[m]> Read section 3 & 4 for some fun
[00:12] <elacheche[m]> To note, those were "update" only licenses, not activation ones.. Softwares kept using pirated activation licenses..
[00:12] <elacheche[m]> Section 4 exposes how M$ helped the GOT keeping an eye on citizens by helping spaying.. 
[00:12] <elacheche[m]> They also were helping teaching GOT how to censorship (aka 3ammar404)
[00:13] <elacheche[m]> And things, didn't changed too much https://twitter.com/elacheche/status/1526174044218867712
[00:33] <grtcdr> I remember reading an article that highlighted the things mentioned in the article you linked.
[00:34] <grtcdr> It's pretty scary how far-reaching microsoft is.
[00:35] <grtcdr> How is their agreement a "win-win"?
[00:36] <grtcdr> They could've pocketed all that money, and hired a team of Linux system administrators and engineers to coordinate their "step towards modernization"
[00:37] <grtcdr> I'm sure it would've costed only a fraction of the 12K licenses they bought.
[00:37] <grtcdr> Meanwhile china is migration some 50M government computers to Linux.
[00:37] <grtcdr> And some german cities thought it was a wonderful idea to go FOSS a few years back.
[00:37] <elacheche[m]> China migration is a whole other story.. 
[00:38] <grtcdr> It just goes to show that government officials don't really make the best decisions, they just go with whatever's on the table.
[00:38] <grtcdr> elacheche[m]: I guess so, but if you want to migrate, you definitely can.
[00:39] <elacheche[m]> Ever heard about capitalism and monopoly? :) 
[00:40] <grtcdr> Microsoft could've been stopped ages ago, but they fueled them by purchasing their garbage licenses <3
[00:40] <elacheche[m]> Anyway, it's almost  3am and I am too old to discuss a such subject on irc at this time.. gtg, good night x) 
[00:40] <grtcdr> See ya!