LETTERS

[AYOUB]

I've come accross a few interesting letters lately and I'd like to share some of them the SOL nomads.

 

 

Here the first:

 

 

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An Open Letter to Bill Gates

 

 

Interestingly, Yemen Times received a letter from a Somali reader living in Yemen who aimed at delivering it to Bill Gates. However, perhaps he thought that the best tool to do that is through Yemen Times. It is not a common practice to publish such articles, but the editorial board decided to publish it, at least to satisfy our reader’s wish. Who knows? Maybe Bill Gates will actually read his letter online?

 

 

Dear Bill Gates,

President of Microsoft Corporation

 

After compliments,

 

I am a Somali citizen Yousuf Ali Jama, born in the city of Aden - Yemen and resident in it since I was born. I work as a teacher in a vocational training institute. I would like to express my deep regret over the decision of the Primary court to divide Microsoft Co. It is clear that the division of the company will severely jeopardize this scientific and technological foundation, particularly in the field of scientific research and inventions.

Therefore, I would like here to confirm my solidarity with you in the hope that this decision will be appealed against at the Supreme Court. May God help you.

Mr. Bill

I have been trained on your program Windows, and another group of related programs like Word, Excel, Access, Internet Explorer. I was so amazed by this scientific achievement. What, however, pains me is that this program on which I was trained was designed only for Arabic and English. I enquired why shouldn’t there be also another program designed for Somali and English languages. These two languages use the same Latin letters. So I am considering to put before you some proposals and opinions which I hope will contribute something to support your establishment. I am summarizing these as follows:

1- There are seventeen million Somalis spreading out in four states in the east of the African Continent. They do not know any language other than Somali. If we regard our era as the era of computers, I think that these people will be deprived of the achievement s of this era. Therefore, I propose to your company that it manufactures MS Windows with its supplements of other programs in English and Somali languages. I think it will not be faced with difficulty in this as the language are written in Latin letters. In this way, your company will have helped our people to catch the era of computers, while at the same time it will provide for itself a large market for its products in the eastern part of the African continent.

2- In 1992, the US forces were sent to Somalia in an operation called “Restore Hopeâ€. The operation failed. Regardless of our opinion about its objectives, justifications and reasons, there is a point unknown to the world. It is that our people are suffering from the world’s high illiteracy rate. Our people are unable to understand what they are seeing in this world of 2000. Among the most important reasons are the lack of any TV Station. Therefore in Somalia until now 90% of our people have not seen any TV program. So how can they understand what others do even for their benefit? The US government should have better established a Somali language satellite TV station based in London instead of sending its forces to Somalia. I hereby propose to your excellency that your company make this station as an investment project.

3- I heard there is a charitable society carrying your name and belongs to your company. I had wished this society include the two following programs into its charitable programs.

a- The world of today is that of the Internet. We, Somalis are pressing that the society sets a site on the Internet with the name of natural Somalia with all its five parts, so that it becomes an archive for anything about Somalia and a forum for exchange of ideas and discussions about our situation, concerns and problems, along with a space for advertisements, etc. Your charitable society will manage and develop this site and provide the necessary funding to run it.

b- Recently the world has begun to be swept by a new phenomena called Internet Café shops. My hope is that your charitable society would set up such cafés in the safe territories of Somalia, particularly in the northern territory which is called the Republic of Somaliland.

 

Yours,

 

Yousuf Ali Jama

Maala - Aden

Email: jamaweyne@usa.net

[Gediid]

Muxuu cuneey Yusuf.Ka waaweyn hal marduuf maybe a jawaan sounds more like it......

[checkmate]

looooooooooool@gediid........Bill gales reads article .......smiles....n says......this guy has potential when he's on JAAD, hire him now

 

 

asxantu

[Jaabir]

tilfotoore fuqal tilfutoore

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

Maybe that is the reason Microsoft will have a Somali version of its Windows operating system soon. Read the story here.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3816717.stm

 

Jaamac Marduuf Weyne brought Gate's attention to the Somali people.

 

Let us all thank Jamac Marduuf Weyne.

[Jaabir]

BTW Nomads.. I am about to to put MS XP, XP Office, Real Player, Adobe and a virus scan software in one CD that you can put into your computer and will automatically install all the said software’s without clicking on yes's or typing in pin #.

saves lots of time when u format your hard drive and want to start over… since you will simply put the CD in and check your computer after 60 minutes with all the software’s installed.

 

i am having little problem with extracting codes though... once i get that resolved i will make one copy for the nomads to copy from and circulate thru SOL insha alah.. and yeah.. we gon make sure to thank Gates for the providing us with such technology..

[Valenteenah.]

^^ Ever heard of copyright infringement?

 

Cool idea anyway...let me know when its good to go coz ma desktop needs upgrading.