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What's 3rd World country?
The term was coined by economist Alfred Sauvy in an article in the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur of August 14, 1952. It was a deliberate reference to the "Third Estate" of the French Revolution. Tiers monde means third world in French. The term gained widespread popularity during the Cold War when many poorer nations adopted the category to describe themselves as neither being aligned with NATO or the USSR, but instead composing a non-aligned "third world."

People seem to make it sound as though 3rd world is poor. Saudia Arbia is 3rd world and certainly far from poor.

So 1st world is Nato Aligned, second world is USSR aligned, and the third world has no alignment.

It really has little to do with being a poor nation you see. So yeah a country like Brazil is worth lost of dollars to the IBM or Microsoft.
Posted by: voska   Posted on: 06/14/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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IBM benefits from MS' mistakes  Tim Patterson | 06/14/04
You got all that from this article?  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Yes ShadeTree  Tim Patterson | 06/14/04
This is serious!  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Microsoft could care less about the "centavos" as you say.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
Shades of denial  whisperycat | 06/14/04
Your link does not support your conclusions.  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
They are in the proccess of migrating thousands of deskops to Linux.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
RE: DonnieBoy  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
They are in the process, and many have done it successfully.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
Please point me to a single link....  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Here are three links, send in that application for infomation minister  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
Nice try, three useless links  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Ok, give us the links to show they are having problems or anything  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
The links about problems are....  ShadeTree | 06/15/04
Man, that is the best you can come up with???  DonnieBoy | 06/15/04
What's 3rd World country?  voska | 06/14/04
Was there a coup that I missed?  Michael Kelly | 06/14/04
Definitely third world but a democracy none the less.  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Shade..You know full well that there have been several MS articles ie  Laff | 06/14/04
Please go back to the original post....  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
And my point was/is Brazil alone is not a big deal, but Brazil is NOT alone  Laff | 06/14/04
Brazil IS a big deal. Microsoft must not give Linux a critical mass  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
dictatorship?  theo_durcan | 06/14/04
My apologies  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
is money even that imporant anymore?  ryusen | 06/14/04
A third-world country with a GDP of $1.376 trillion  Expatriate US Geek | 06/15/04
Taco..My God, That was brilliant!!!  Laff | 06/15/04
Taco!  ShadeTree | 06/15/04
Reccession (sic)  Expatriate US Geek | 06/15/04
The artical directly states that IBM is going after Microsoft  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
nothing to do with MS but cash savings  Kamakazii | 06/14/04
Actually, just the opposite, more bucks with Windows.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
Nearer the truth, I think  IT_User | 06/14/04
Good news for customers, helping bring down prices through competition.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
IBM hides behind "open source"  starman_z | 06/15/04
IBM aint hidin' nowhere. IBM doesn't perform, there are other venders.  DonnieBoy | 06/15/04
Re: Be afraid of "free"  Linux_Developer | 06/16/04

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