We're traveling this week to Egypt for a good friend's wedding.

I was looking forward to seeing and/or hearing about the use of open source in a country like Egypt. I paid special attention to the systems in use at the airport at the EgyptAir airline office and at the hotels we stayed at.

Over and over I kept seeing native Windows (Win32) applications. I talked to several of the Egyptian-national wedding guests if they'd heard about "open source or Linux." The answer: "No, what is that?" These guests are all white-collared upper-middle-class folks. Many of them are in knowledge-worker roles. Two were in IT functions in Windows-based shops.

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