Local software for local people
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| Part of the report deals with the little-known (outside of
| Europe anyway) success of the GNU/Linux deployment in the
| Extremadura region of Spain, where regional government
| adopted a Debian Linux distribution for local use. This
| involved changing the often rather obscure names of free
| software programs to something more meaningful to
| non-technical users (why do we use something called
| "FireFox" to browse the Web?), complete localization,
| and -- more importantly -- customization of the desktop
| distribution to make it meaningful to local people.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6157180.html
Recent:
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| "The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it
| abandon its report into open source software, it was revealed this week
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| [...]
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| The software giant also commissioned a respected university
| academic to back its case and enlisted the help of a trade
| association, CompTIA."
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http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39165722,00.htm
Lobbying for lockin?
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