Linux Competency Centre open for use
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| The idea behind the LCC is to offer businesses who are
| considering switching to Linux an opportunity to test their
| systems without having to disrupt their own operations.
| Having partnered with Wits, the facility is also available
| for academic research. IBM has set up 20 such LCCs around thew
| orld, but it is only in South Africa that they offer the
| facility to non-corporates.
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Open for training
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| At present there are courses on web design, Firefox, Thunderbird,
| Open Office, Ubuntu, Gnu Cash and Freemind, among others. Most are
| offered in English, but there are multilingual and Dutch courses.
|
| [...]
|
| "We think that the open source movement can be a sort of role model
| for sharing educational information. With Open of Course we hope to
| stimulate people to share information on the same principles that
| open source software is shared," she says.
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Company grows out of schools Linux project
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| Based on the successes of the tuXlabs schools Linux project in South
| Africa, the team members have started a company to continue the work.
|
| [...]
|
| The tuXlabs programme, started by the Shuttleworth Foundation, has
| installed Linux-based computer laboratories in approximately 200
| schools across South Africa.
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South Africa: Open Source 'Helps You And Helps SA'
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| South African companies are being urged to adopt open source software so
| they can not only cut their running costs but also contribute to job
| creation and boost the national economy.
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Africa: Africans Need to Develop Open Source Software
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| "Open source gives users freedom to create their projects. We need to
| be innovative. Proprietary software does not give us that freedom, we
| cannot change it or play with it to adapt to our needs. We want the
| freedom to learn, we want to be able to check and change the source
| code of open source software," Jollitte said.
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