"Free as in beer" - "Free as in freedom" - "Free as in 1984"

Cuba is being very wise
They have learnt from past dealings with the USA, was Guantanamo bay not given to the USA while they got rid of the Spanish, and when the spanish were gone the USA decided to stay, indefinitely?
Did Cuba not open its shores up for USA tourism, but in the end the women became whores and the rest were slaves.

Linux is a good option, their state allows that the schools have to use Linux only. In time that will be the only software commonly known, and thus supported.
I went with using a PC over Apple because there were people in my street who had PCs, I didn't know anyone with an Apple. It all boils down to how much support you can get, what software you can bludge (borrow/get/steal).
Every bit of software has a backdoor, we use it all the same because we think we can trust the writer.

I wish Cuba had an address, both physical or cyber where interested parties could send hardware and or software - bypassing the direct export from the USA.

Hey, Rich Wargo - I bet the USA have a Tunnel or bridge planned, so that the can link Cuba onto Florida, then another bridge across to Haiti.

Concerns about backdoors in Microsoft products are not new.

"These are just used to ensure that we're compliant with US export regulations," said Scott Culp, Microsoft's security manager for its Windows NT Server software. (BBC, 3.9.1999)

The only people in US who give a thought at all about Cuba are the supporters of the previous dictator Bautista, and their descendants, who all live, thank God, in the Miama/South Florida area. They were the people who made their fortunes stealing from the poor of Cuba, and they have harboured hatred for the Castro regime for taking away their easy pickings.

As far as I am concerned, the whole embargo was just a political sop to those people to get their votes.

Quite frankly, if it was so bad to be dealing with a Communist regime, why were we dealing with the Soviets and Chinese, and now the Vietnamese and other totalitarian regimes. The whole embargo nonsense smells quite fishy.

We should just lift the embargo and just ignore Cuba instead of continuing this useless, nonsensical, shallowly political trick.

The homos in South Florida will just have to get over it. Cuba is just not important enough for the rest of us to care.