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[News] South African Press on Free Software

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Open source - a quality perspective

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| Open source software (OSS) is software that has been developed, tested or 
| improved through public collaboration and distributed on the understanding 
| that the results will be shared with others, thus ensuring an open future 
| collaboration between corporations, public and academic institutions and 
| individuals.    
| 
| OSS originally began as a marketing campaign for free software back in the 
| 1980s but was changed in the late 1990s in order to be 'commercially 
| acceptable' and the basis on which a licence could be attached, with the 
| objective of making a product more understandable, modifiable, duplicatable, 
| reliable or simply accessible, while still making it a marketable commodity.    
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2008/0807110812.asp?A=LIN&S=Open%20Source&O=FPIN

South Africa is steadily moving to GNU/Linux.


Recent:

Channel welcomes Red Hat

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| Commercial open source software (OSS) vendor Red Hat has opened a South
| African office, which will be headed by Louis Seyffert.
|
| Paul Holt, EMEA regional director at Red Hat, says there has been strong
| demand for open source skills and methodologies in the local market.
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/channel/2008/0806121034.asp?A=CON&S=Consulting%20and%20IT%20Services&T=Section&O=ST


SITA braves open source

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| SITA has chosen Ubuntu for its desktop operating environment. Running on top
| of this will be open office, as well as several other FOSS applications,
| aimed at improving SITA's collaborative and engagement environments.
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2008/0806111200.asp?A=ITG&S=IT%20in%20Government&O=FPLEAD


Brazil explores SA open source push - ITWeb

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| Brazilian ICT companies are keen to capitalise on the South African
| government's latest e-government push.
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2008/0806111038.asp%3FO%3DFPTOP%26S%3DIT%2520in%2520government%26A%3DITG&cid=0&ei=neFPSIHnLYa2xAH1hcmlCA&usg=AFQjCNEin3h_kSV-VxAK7DAthBrbgJUZQg


Recent:

CSIR to switch 2300 users to Ubuntu Linux

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| Parastal CSIR, South Africa’s national science and technology research
| organisation, is readying to switch most of its more than 2300 staff to using
| Ubuntu Linux as their default desktop
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2448
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