Egyptian companies have long relied on proprietary software to get their work done. There are many reasons for this, mainly lack of knowledge & unawareness of the Free/Open Source alternatives, especially Linux. Most business owners/managers simply don't trust free (as in beer) software. "How would a free O/S have the quality of windows ??" is a popular question. Almost everyone has some kind of windows experience, which makes them feel assured that it will be easy to get technical support.

Well, what about showing a real Egyptian business which relies solely on FOSS (Free, Open Source Software) ?? That's exactly what we've done. We, 3 members of EGLUG, interviewed Mr. Omar BayehElDin. Mr. Omar is the owner of Abou Youssef company, which works in *** clothes. He's been running solely on Linux & free software for years, and he's quite satisfied. He forgot all about crashes, viruses & has saved alot of money ever since.

We are: Ahmed El Sherbiny (ShErbO) Sherif Nagy (DarKnesS_WolF) Ahmed El-Mekkawy (linuxawy)