Imran William Smith imran@imran.info wrote:
Of course, many argue that precisely in developing countries, price is not the issue, since piracy of proprietary software is so rampant. Particularly, that applies to the home user. Businesses are occasionally raided here for software piracy, but private homes never are. So there's very little incentive for the home user to clean up his/her act and move to OSS.
Maybe the main incentive to offer these people is the ability to fix and adapt the software to do the tasks that they need to do? That, and the ability to study the software design in detail, to give them new useful skills for the future.