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[News] Pakistan Fights Piracy by Encouraging Use of Open Source Software

500 professionals trained in open-source software

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| The ministry has begun the project Open Source Resource Centre
| (OSRC) to address queries related to open-source software. The
| resource centre provides assistance to companies intending tos
| ave money by shifting to open-source software solutions.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C03%5C15%5Cstory_15-3-2007_pg11_11


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Pakistani students might be using $100 laptop next year

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| Pakistan Wednesday expressed its resolve to introduce an
| enabling atmosphere to the country's schools and colleges
| to allow students to use low-cost laptops which would
| serve as electronic school bags.
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http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?161609


Pakistan looks to free software

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| Pakistan, a country often criticised for software piracy, is
| looking at free and open source software as a way to transform
| its image and build local skills.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1262


Pakistan takes to alternative software

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| Pakistan, often criticised for software 'piracy', is
| placing its faith on the Free Software and Open Source
| options to get out of this trap and also build local skills.
|
| Also called Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS),
| it is a family of software liberally licensed to grant
| the right of users to study, change and improve its
| design through the availability of its source code.
|
| [...]
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| In Pakistan, the attempt is also to build skills.
| FOSS-FP has been holding short-duration, single-day
| literacy campaigns. 'We give (students) free training
| on installing and using Ubuntu Linux, Open Suse, Red Hat
| Fedora Core,' Bajwa said.
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http://www.indiaenews.com/technology/20061024/26059.htm


The First International Conference on Open-Source Technologies

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| Open-Source Software Engineering (OSSE) has emerged as a
| cross-disciplinary paradigm for distributed enterprise
| computing. OSS, in many cases, has kept the software market
| away from monopolies. It is helping organizations to keep
| a control on the cost of development and deployment.
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http://uet.edu.pk/icost2006/


Will UAE possibly support Laptops for every child in Pakistan?

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| Prime Minister of Pakistan Shaukat Aziz stated in November 2006
| that the Government of Pakistan will consider the feasibility
| for making low-cost laptop computers available to school going
| children in Pakistan. With this, newspapers recently carried
| the news that Pakistan is gearing up to buy the OLPCs "One
| Laptop Per Child" for every child in Pakistan and this may
| possibly be done with the support by the United Arab Emirates
| as mentioned earlier by Negroponte.
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http://www.localfoss.org/UAE_May_Support_OLPC_In_Pakistan

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