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the address http://www.nmia.com/~mosque. Ahmad Darwish’s email
address reflected the fact that he was a specialist in LDAP, or “Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol,” an internet protocol that email programs can
use to look up contact information from a server. Together with one
Ahmad Abdel-Hamid, Ahmad Darwish (who seems to have been an employee
or consultant of Sun Microsystems at some point and who in most of
his computer-related business refers to himself as “Alan Darwish” (Alan
Darwish < Main < TWiki, 2004) (Ahmad Darwish’s profile, 2005)
founded the company Linuxvision sometime in the 1990s. Linuxvision was
apparently first registered in the Cayman Islands for tax reasons and later
moved to St. Louis (but with a phone number in Dallas, TX), and had representatives
in Chicago, Dallas, Cairo (Ahmad Abdel-Hamid), Karachi,
Bombay, and Dubai. Linuxvision struggled to find a market niche as the
internet boom took off, betting on offering Arabic support under the Linux
platform. In 1999, it developed the “Sheba Linux Arabization Server Package”
which added some Arabic support to Linux’s GNOME user environment.
Sheba was doomed, however, due to a lack of development in a
constantly changing open-source world. A number of other projects—e.g.,
to establish a Halal offshore bank or “the largest Muslim public offering
address reflected the fact that he was a specialist in LDAP, or “Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol,” an internet protocol that email programs can
use to look up contact information from a server. Together with one
Ahmad Abdel-Hamid, Ahmad Darwish (who seems to have been an employee
or consultant of Sun Microsystems at some point and who in most of
his computer-related business refers to himself as “Alan Darwish” (Alan
Darwish < Main < TWiki, 2004) (Ahmad Darwish’s profile, 2005)
founded the company Linuxvision sometime in the 1990s. Linuxvision was
apparently first registered in the Cayman Islands for tax reasons and later
moved to St. Louis (but with a phone number in Dallas, TX), and had representatives
in Chicago, Dallas, Cairo (Ahmad Abdel-Hamid), Karachi,
Bombay, and Dubai. Linuxvision struggled to find a market niche as the
internet boom took off, betting on offering Arabic support under the Linux
platform. In 1999, it developed the “Sheba Linux Arabization Server Package”
which added some Arabic support to Linux’s GNOME user environment.
Sheba was doomed, however, due to a lack of development in a
constantly changing open-source world. A number of other projects—e.g.,
to establish a Halal offshore bank or “the largest Muslim public offering