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South Africa goes open-source

South Africa's government goes open-source, adopting a policy of switching to open-source software on principle, saving license fees and building up local programming skills. Microsoft, understandably, are not amused.

(I wonder how long until MS and their ilk will find some way of using international "free-trade" treaties to force governments to dump open-source-only policies as "unfair subsidies" or "expropriation" or some similar menace to the smooth running of global neo-liberal capitalism.)

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Posted by: Graham
http://grudnuk.com
Tue Jan 21 11:38:39 2003

Did you see that bit where M$ is allowing the Russian government to the Windows source code; given the shadowy relationship between the Kremlin, the Russian mafia and in turn the *.ru kiddies, I wonder if that's such a bright move...

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