But then why should developing countries use an old, buggy and proprietary > software when they can get for free modern, top class open source operating > systems? :) > > Because they are used to work with windows, they don't know linux and they don't know someone who can explain how to use it. And their PC works well with windows : think of the nightmare it can be sometimes to make your hardware work with linux, some popular linux distros have dropped support for old hardware: I'm writing on a PC with 442Mo of RAM where I could install xubuntu LTS 12.04 but I keep running on an older version because it swaps too much, on a more recent Acer this same xubuntu does not recognize the 3-d opengl card acceleration while older xubuntu did. And I'm afraid there are a lot of mathematicians who don't use linux, even in the open-source software developers community in OCDE countries, think of Mac users for example :-)
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