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Source: Schneier on Security - Posted by Ryan W. Maple   
Government Too funny (or scary, depending on your point-of-view). Apparently Iran thinks so poorly of Microsoft Windows they won't even use it. "Secondly, Microsoft software has a lot of backdoors and security weaknesses that are always being patched, so it is not secure. We are also under US sanctions. All this makes us think we need an alternative operating system."

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no surpriseWritten by my real name on 2009-03-29 03:44:08
windows doesn't support farsi, linux does. of course, MS doesn't really care either way because iran doesn't recognize american copyrights so they aren't making any sales anyway (which is why they don't support farsi)

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