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`Do not fall prey to software monopolies'
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| The extensive use of proprietary software will lead to digital colonisation,
| as it forbids people from sharing knowledge, founder of GNU Project and Free
| Software Foundation, Richard Stallman has said.
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| [...]
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| Stallman said that companies such as Microsoft were trying to create colonies
| by not sharing the knowledge behind the software. ‘’Just like colonialism,
| they are following the divide and rule policy. After making some softwares,
| they are asking us to use it or to think like that. Here, people become
| slaves of this monopoly,’’ he said.
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http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=%60Do+not+fall+prey+to+software+monopolies&artid=k4VW14tH7I0=&SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts&SEO=
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.
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| 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.
|
| [...]
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| 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.
|
| [...]
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| "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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