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[News] Software Freedom Day Grows up and Makes Free Software Impossible to Ignore

  • Subject: [News] Software Freedom Day Grows up and Makes Free Software Impossible to Ignore
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:49:47 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Taking FOSS to the masses

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| A total of 290 teams (as of this writing) will be marking the day in Africa, 
| Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, Central, South and North America and Europe. 
| Linux user groups will be involved as will other organisations which serve as 
| gathering points for hobbyist and business users of FOSS.   
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14297/1091/

Firefox is nowadays used by many people.


Related:

Software Freedom Day 2007 - Bigger than ever! 

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| September 15th marks Software Freedom Day, the world's largest celebration 
| and outreach effort about why transparent and sustainable technologies like 
| Free & Open Source Software are so important.  
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http://softwarefreedomday.org/PressReleases/18072007


South Africa: Dept Celebrates Open Source Software Freedom Day

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| Software freedom day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open
| Source Software (FOSS).
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| FOSS is free and users unlike other software can freely copy and
| distribute it.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200609180747.html


Software Freedom Day

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| Marcelo also related how a recent visit to an Internet café--one with
| three Windows PCs and three Linux boxes--illustrated the inroads that
| FOSS has made and the obstacles that remain.
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business06_sept19_2006

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