Comment 888 for bug 1

This bug is easily reproducible throughout the Arab world. Here in Dubai, UAE, this bug can be found on every computer. Even in Gitex 2008 , the major IT industry expo in the region, Linux had a poor table between tens of thousands of tables that promoted Micro$oft.

Most Arabs, including the educated, have no knowledge that this is actually a bug. Micro$oft is thought to be the nature of IT, as god given as the sun or the earth. Most Arabs are not aware that there is an alternative to MS Windows.

Nor is the general public aware of the problems attached to copy rights in general and copy righted software in particular.

Linux awareness is almost nil in the general public. Linux in general is being shunned by academia as well industry as inappropriate!

Arab governments, in general, have allied themselves, formally or informally with Micro$oft. Intellectual Property Rights is a theme being marketed to the general public as a good thing for a happy future!

Awareness campaigns to promote Linux are rare events, extremely limited in reach, and met by all sorts of formal bureaucratic obstacles, by governments, academia, as well as industry.