Linux extends African programme to Nigeria and Uganda
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| In Uganda the East African Centre for Open Source Software (EACOSS) will
| cater for Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the Great Lakes region.
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http://www.corridornet.co.za/modules/articles/?Task=1&Irn=1518&CIrn=25
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SA Government's OSS plans revealed
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| Migration of current systems is also planned. This will be done in a phased
| approach, beginning with applications such as replacing MS Office with Open
| Office or KOffice and replacing Internet Explorer with Firefox. This will in
| time lead up to the operating system, replacing Windows with a Linux
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| distribution. Migration to Apache for the running of government websites has
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| already occurred within a number of departments.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1684
[South African] Government switches to Open Source
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| Cape Town - Cabinet has approved a policy and strategy to implement
| Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in government, government
| communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
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http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2888&iArticleId=3695987
http://tinyurl.com/2c8lbz
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
AMD brings Linux to East Africans
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| Inveneo CTO Jeff Wishnie said that Inveneo created its own Linux
| port in-house, incorporating open source software packages such
| as OpenOffice, Firefox, Sylpheed, and Asterisk. Inveneo Linux also
| includes rdesktop, a Microsoft RDP (remote desktop protocol)
| client, enabling the clients to host Windows-only applications,
| such as some distance learning programs, when necessary.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6428796596.html
Debate widens over over deploying computers in the developing world
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| The controversy boiled over on Saturday at a meeting where Craig
| Barrett, chairman of Intel, squared off with Nicholas Negroponte,
| the former director of the MIT Media Laboratory and head of the
| nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child, which is focusing
| on the 1.2 billion children in the developing world.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/28/business/cheap.php
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