SA’s free software dream turns into telecoms nightmare
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| In February the cabinet agreed that all new software developed for government
| bodies should use open, rather then proprietary, standards. Existing software
| was to be replaced gradually by open source alternatives.
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Software internship programme pushes OSS
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| Lulatech, a software development consortium, is in the process of accepting
| applications for an internship and training programme.
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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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FOSSFA calls for use of open hardware
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| "No government should allow its freedom of choice to be restricted by the
| chance of prior hardware purchases. The fact of the matter is that government
| is a major purchaser of hardware and it can use that power to enforce
| openness among manufacturers and their products," he said
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