Posted 02/21/2009 at 01:19:01pm

Ofcourse Cuba can not rely on Microsoft for their computers.

Cuba have no access to the source-code, and can never be sure what windows really does. And, Pentagon and NATO partners have access to the code and therefor in better positiion in net-war. Would us americans rely on closed sourse os from Cuba, China, or Russia?

Allso Microsoft have no support for their closed soursed products to Cuba, and do not sell products to Cuba. Because of the us economic blockade. Guess there allso would be problem to get security updates.

 Of course it makes perfect sense to build their own version of GNU Linux. It is very mature and have massive support from other governments, many big companies, and thousends of individuals througout the world. If Cuba should build, closed sourced something compareable they would have to engage developers with hundres of billion worth of euros. And in computer history there islittle that shows that a closed source make a system safe. Opposite.The MS Windows series are known to be very unsafe, vulnerable for attacks, viruses and troyans. GNU Linux on the other hand are known to be much more secure. Allmost all super-computers and important internet-server-clusters run GNU Linux. Go figure.

Open source allso fits Cuban ideology. There is no private property. The software belongs to all the people.

I find it a better question why Cuba did not do this 15 years ago.

Keith E. Whisman wrote:

"There is no chance in Cuba to build a company and become super rich and live out a dream through hard work. Nope "

 You are right. Cubans have other thoughts about a good society. Were all should have met their basic needs. So no extreme poverty. Also people should not exploit eachother. If you are rich, in essence, you have a lot of people subordinated you, and working to make you happy. Cubans have thoughts about equality. 

Last I will comment the title of the main article "Cuba to United States: We'll Launch our own OS!". Is this really about USA? 

 I thought it was about cuban computers...