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[News] Canonical Spreads Linux (Not Just Ubuntu) in Africa Using Vending Machines

  • Subject: [News] Canonical Spreads Linux (Not Just Ubuntu) in Africa Using Vending Machines
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:19:57 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Freedom Toaster

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| Frustrated by the exorbitant cost of computer software and the painfully slow 
| (not to mention expensive) bandwidth in South Africa? 
| 
| Fear not, for the Shuttleworth Foundation's Freedom Toaster is coming to your 
| rescue. 
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http://cooltech.iafrica.com/features/420662.htm


Related:

Africa: 'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocates

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| Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the
| on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya.
|
| With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press,
| organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source
| software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for
| the forum's usage and its related activities.
|
| [...]
|
| Activists at the forum also believe that since Microsoft is a
| corporate brand from the United States of America, a country
| they believe has intentions of maintaining the status quo of
| a unipolar world over which it is above international law and
| the UN, the brand should be locked out.
|
| [...]
|
| "The open source movement is providing Linux, a robust free
| software. Everybody owns it and it can be shared. And this
| is what WSF is all about - a free society, a movement
| fighting for ownership of free resources" he adds.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200701230831.html

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