On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:39:40 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
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>PanAfrica: Donor Support in Eastern Cape e-Learning Programme Encouraged
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>| For example, Microsoft have donated software such as the Windows XP
>| (Professional), as well as its word processing package, MS Office Suite
>| (2003) and the indexing software, Encarta, for school libraries in the
>| Province.
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>| [...]
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>| He, however, said that the Eastern Cape Province is ahead of other
>| Provinces in the country in that all departments are slowly being run
>| using OSS. He revealed that all the workstations in the Premier's office
>| are using OSS. This includes operating systems (Linux), word-processors
>| (Open Office Suite) and internet browsers (Mozilla).
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That is hardly "all of Africa". Isn't Somalia near there?
These lunatics tried to steal an ocean liner. Why wouldn't they pirate
a little software. Might be the reason there's been no Microsoft
push in the area.
Hell, they can't afford the free stuff. Why try to sell them anything.
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