South Africans don’t understand OSS - Microsoft (so there)
Despite having an open source strategy the South African government doesn’t really understand how to benefit from OSS. This is according to Microsoft director of corporate standards, Jason 
Matusow. Matusow, who was in South Africa on an “external outreach” trip around the time SA adopted ODF as a national standard, writes on his blog that not only does government not understand how to benefit from open source software, but South Africans were unlikely to ever do any “deep” development work on Linux.“South Africa has taken a most unfortunate position of late - the government has sought to put a political mandate in place for the adoption of open source software,” Matusow writes.
“But, the most serious issue to me is that they are not looking at the real benefits that OSS can bring them.”
Matusow says that for South Africa to really benefit from open source it should apply OSS development and licensing methodologies at the app-dev and tools layer, rather than thinking of the core OS as an OSS opportunity for them.